Word: mk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which small segment of the Bay Bridge do you refer when you say, "MK built the San Francisco side of the 4,62O-ft. Bay Bridge...
...Colorado River, generate power at the rate of 4 billion kw. a year. On Deadwood, M-K used some of the first bulldozers, began testing diesel trucks, gas-powered revolving shovels, learned to haul equipment over mountains as high as 7,400 ft. on log roads. Even more important, MK's idea for joint ventures was a solution to the dam builders' growing financial problem: projects were so huge that few companies had the means or courage to tackle them since a single mistake might wipe them out. But in joint ventures, with many companies sharing costs...
...partners at Hoover, wound up using 60 huge monsters. There, too, M-K showed off a new tunnel-driving technique using drill jumbos, great scaffolds on which men with 40 drills could hammer away at the same time, thus cutting costs drastically. Hoover was finished in five years, and MK's share of the $10.4 million profit was about...
...Compete." Today, Harry Morrison runs an empire of 36 subsidiaries, eleven other companies, has more than 3,660 pieces of heavy equipment. MK's 1953 gross totaled $287 million, its profits a record $5,761,000, an impressive figure in an industry where competitive bids often shave profits paper-thin. Besides heavy basic construction, M-K is now expanding into factories and laboratories. In 1950, M-K bought 98% of Cleveland's H. K. Ferguson Co., one of the top U.S. constructors of industrial buildings, for $2,650,000, has put it to work on Pittsburgh...
...Actually eight: MK, Henry J. Kaiser Co. (Oakland, Calif.), W. A. Bechtel (San Francisco), Utah Construction Co., MacDonald & Kahn Inc. (San Francisco), J. F. Shea Co.. Inc. (Los Angeles), Pacific Bridge Co. (Portland, Ore.) and General Construction Co. (Seattle...