Word: mk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five-week, world-girdling trip. His itinerary: Casablanca, to look over work on the North African air bases; Iraq, to bid on a dam project; Italy, to check on a tunnel through the Italian Alps. Many of Morrison's other jobs are in primitive, undeveloped countries, where MK's giant power shovels and 18-ton bulldozers are as much a source of wonder as the iron horse was to the Indians a century ago. In these countries, M-K has caused roses to grow in deserts, electric power and wealth to flow from forbidding mountain streams, new skills...
About 8,000 miles away, in British Columbia, another M-K construction crew was finishing a far bigger job, a $173 million hydroelectric installation. It was MK's share of the $500 million Nechako-Kitimat project of the Aluminum Co. of Canada, probably the biggest construction job ever attempted by private capital. To supply power for a new aluminum smelter, M-K had dammed a river to form a 120-mile-long reservoir, hollowed out a mountain to enclose a huge powerhouse five city blocks long, and drilled a ten-mile tunnel to carry the water to the turbines...
...mammoth Alcan project is a prime example of the Morrison method. When the preliminary survey work was done in February 1951, MK's No. 2 man, Jack Bonny, called a big, hearty Swede named Ole Strandberg who was vacationing in Honolulu. "Come on back," said Bonny. "We have a job for you-some dams and tunnels-the kind of stuff you like." Some "dams and tunnels," recalls Strandberg, turned out to be "a ten-mile tunnel, a 50-mile transmission line, the biggest underground powerhouse ever built...