Word: knudsens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anyone else to change the face of the earth lives in a one-story frame house at an elevation of 2,695 ft. in Boise, Idaho (long. 116° 11 min. W., lat. 43° 34 min. N.). He is Harry Winford Morrison, 69, white-haired boss of Morrison-Knudsen Co., the world's biggest heavy construction firm...
...Learn, Too." Overseas, Morrison-Knudsen is as much teacher as builder. When M-K first went into Afghanistan seven years ago to erect two dams to control floods and bring water to 400,000 desert acres, it brought in a large crew of Americans. There were even high-school graduates to work on surveying teams. M-K found, as it had in South America, that it could train natives for many of the jobs. Now it generally operates with only one American specialist to scores of natives on each job. M-K sometimes has as many as 400,000 local...
...Money, Just Guts." On a Boise River project in 1908, Morrison heard that one of the contractors would make $100,000. "If that fellow can make $100,000," said Morrison, "I can make $1,000,000." With that, he marched up to a small contractor named Morris Knudsen, who owned a few horses and was building a road to the dam. Introducing himself, Morrison said: "I'd like to go into business with...
Somewhat taken aback, Knudsen asked: "What do you have...
...engineer and sales manager of its auto division. Wilson got major credit for an engineering-design program which put Remy (later Delco-Remy) back on its financial feet. In 1928 he was brought to Detroit as G.M.'s youngest (38) vice president. In 1941, after the late William Knudsen went to Washington as the nation's defense-production expediter, Wilson became, at 50, president of General Motors...