Word: morrison
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years as a builder, Harry Morrison and his men have moved mountains, tamed rivers, built scores of dams, tunnels, power plants, railroads, highways, bridges and airfields around the world. Morrison was the driving force behind Hoover Dam; he was part of the combine that built the string of Navy airfields across the Pacific during World War II. Like many Americans, he thinks of nothing but work, and he has a simple adage to explain his passionate absorption. "A man's worth," he says, "is counted in the things he creates for the betterment of his fellow...
Last week, for the betterment of his fellow men and to keep an eye on his projects abroad, Builder Morrison took off on a 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...
Bulldozers & Draglines. Through the skills of Harry Morrison and other U.S. builders, economic progress has been given a mighty push. U.S. earth movers have shown the world that man need not be a prisoner of his surroundings, starving in desert lands or drowned by torrential floods. He can change much of the unproductive land to suit his needs- Part of this change is due to the new machinery: the clanking bulldozers that knock down forests, the great draglines that claw house-sized holes at a single scoop, the cranes, jumbos, earth movers, power shovels, trenchers and dozens of other mechanical...
...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...
...Morrison's one commandment is to get the job done on time, even at the expense of the 10% profit that he tries to make on big jobs. When his estimators make a mistake, Morrison never tries to squirm out from under. When the boss of a job wants help, he does not go to Boise; Morrison or one of his lieutenants hotfoots it out to the job. Otherwise, Morrison gives his project managers all the elbow room they need...