Word: shasta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. John Lucian Savage, 88, designer of the Boulder, Grand Coulee, Shasta and a host of other hydroelectric dams; after long illness; in Englewood, Colo. In 21 years as the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's chief design engineer, Savage drafted plans for 60 major U.S. dams, yet still was earning less than $10,000 a year when he retired at 65-after which he started a second, more remunerative career as consultant on a score of foreign projects, including Switzerland's Super-Dixence Dam and India's Koyna irrigation project...
...miles of road and built 500 bridges in 41 years instead of the scheduled seven. Later, in what was then a novel concept, Kaiser teamed with five other contracting companies to build Hoover Dam in four years instead of six. The syndicate moved on to work on Bonneville, Shasta and Grand Coulee dams and the piers for the San Francisco Bay Bridge. By the time World War II came and Kaiser went into shipbuilding, he could look back on nearly $400 million worth of projects including pipelines and Mississippi River levees, dams and bridges...
...Each of the 20 divisions is independent, sends a weekly financial, statement to Cummings, who aims for them to earn a pre-tax 20% on employed capital. Two-thirds of the divisions exceed that target. The most profitable are Sara Lee, Ohio's Lawson Milk Co., Booth Fisheries, Shasta Beverages and Eagle Food Centers...
...Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Mich.; Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, Ind.; Oregon Dunes National Seashore, Ore.; Great Basin National Park, Nev.; Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas; Spruce Knob, Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area, W.Va.; Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area, Mont.-Wyo.; Flaming Gorge National Recreation, Utah-Wyo.; Whiskeytown-Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area, Calif...
...benefit. Last week the nation's second largest cigarette maker (after R.J. Reynolds) moved to acquire Chicago's Consolidated Foods Corp. Consolidated is a vast (1964 sales: $634 million) packer, distributor and retailer of foods whose sweets range from Sara Lee bakery products to Union Sugar and Shasta beverages...