Word: osman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...economic resource and symbol of national pride, was completed last week after ten years of the most arduous construction work since the pharaohs put up the pyramids. As the dam has risen to 350 ft. above the Nile, so has the reputation of the man who built it: Osman Ahmed Osman, the largest building contractor...
Arab world. In a region not exactly noted for efficiency, the burly, 52-year-old Osman has achieved a reputation that would be enviable anywhere for completing complex projects on time and within cost estimates...
...land the job for the Aswan's first stage, Osman underbid his only competitor by nearly one half. Millions of tons of granite had to be moved in 140° heat, and Osman found his biggest problem to be the Soviet equipment, which had been accepted by Gamal Abdel Nasser as a condition of Russian aid. Soviet power shovels and drills could not cope with the granite, and trucks broke down in the heat. Osman convinced Nasser that only Swedish, British and Japanese equipment would get the $920 million job done on time. His project was completed on schedule...
Abstinence Helps.The laborers whom Osman trained at Aswan have lately been dispersed in half a dozen Arab countries to work on more than $400 million worth of construction. His men are constructing a pair of bridges at Cairo, digging irrigation canals in Iraq, and building a stadium and sewage system in Libya. A 1,000,000-acre land-reclamation project in the salt marshes near Port Said has been held up by Israeli shelling...