Word: morrison
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Contractor's Hill from sliding into the vital Gaillard Cut (TIME, May 10) and blocking the Panama Canal, the Canal Co. called for emergency bidding on a contract for the removal of some 2,000,000 cu. yds. of the rocky hill. Seven contracting firms, among them Morrison-Knudsen, world's greatest earth mover, rushed engineers to the canal to study the great fissure splitting the hill. But it was the young and aggressive Tecon Corp. of Dallas that put in the winning offer, 15 minutes before the bidding closed last week...
Coach Bill McCurdy said the following will compete: Captain-elect Bob Rittenburg; hurdles, Captain Peter Dew; sprints; Hal Gerry, two mile; Art Siler, shot put and discus; Roger Machanic, discus; and Pete Morrison, high jump...
...would like to compliment you on the May 3 issue of TIME, in which you featured Earth Mover Harry Morrison . . . It is my opinion that Harry Morrison and other American builders of this type are doing more to build good will with our foreign neighbors than the Marshall-Acheson-Dulles combined team has ever done or ever will...
After a driving day on a construction job (a new California school), a couple of drinks and a steak dinner, and then reading of Harry Morrison, one cannot help feeling inspired and glad to be a part of {our] industry...
Siler was first in the discus throw and the shot put. In the former event the Crimson swept all three places. Other winners for the varsity included Warren Little in the 440; Ed Carter in the 220 low hurdles; Hal Gerry in the two mile; Peto Morrison in the javelin; and the mile relay...