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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Teammates." A cool, tough engineer, Denver-born McDonnell calls his employees "my teammates," and he makes them perform as a team. He came up through a brief career as a barnstorming pilot and, after that, as a project engineer at the Glenn L. Martin Co., then started his own plant at the St. Louis airport with $165,000 in savings and money borrowed from, among others, Laurance Rockefeller. Gaining experience and financial strength as a subcontractor on such planes as the DC-3, McDonnell eventually designed and built his own, convinced the Navy that it could fly faster and perform...
...financial problems and the fact that its assembly lines at its Long Beach, Calif., plant are inefficiently laid out, Douglas was not lacking in merger offers. After all, the backlog in orders for its big jets has now reached $3.2 biilion, part of it for the DC-8-62, which is the world's farthest-flying commercial jet, with a range of 5,750 miles. Thus, even as Douglas' money problems got worse, plenty of bidders beside McDonnell showed up. Among them were Signal Oil & Gas, Fairchild Killer, General Dynamics and North American Aviation...
...delivery by Peabody of a minimum of 117 million tons of coal to the yet-to-be-built Mohave Power Project in Clark County, Nev., 80 miles from Las Vegas. Being built by three Southwestern utility companies headed by Southern California Edison, the $188 million electrical-power plant will have two 750,000-kw. generators on 2,500 acres of Colorado River land. Power from the plant, along with that from a similar project already under construction in western New Mexico, will light up the lamps of Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, and the proliferating lower two-thirds of California...
...Mohave furnaces will gobble up the equivalent of two 100-car trains of coal each day when they begin operating in 1970. Peabody will mine the coal in the Black Mesa area of northern Arizona, crush and convert it to slurry by adding water, pump it to the Mohave plant by way of a 275-mile coal pipeline (the longest of its kind in the world...
...Nevada site for the Mohave project was selected because 1) there are no antismog regulations out on the desert, 2) the Colorado River is an ideal source of the water required by the plant, and 3) the desert land is central to the areas it will serve. selection of coal, rather than gas-oil or nuclear energy to fuel the Mohave power plant, was determined by the simple economics of electric-power production. Coal-generated power costs about 60% as much as that produced by a new nuclear plant, and at least 10% less than gas-oil generation. Moreover...