Word: marinship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bechtel's biggest boost came with World War II, when the company built and operated the Calship and Marinship yards on the West Coast and turned out a total of 560 ships for the Allies. During that time, Bechtel was also gaining experience in oil-refinery engineering and pipeline construction, which paid off handsomely in postwar years. Since then, Bechtel engineers have been consistently busy. One of their earlier enterprises: laying a large part of the 1,100-mile trans-Arabian pipeline linking the Persian Gulf with the Mediterranean in 1947-50. One of their more recent tasks: building...
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