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...have been killed on the Alcan project, 33 in tunnel and mountain accidents, 15 in plane crashes. But no time has been lost. Three of the eight big generators are now being set in place. By July, the first power will surge over transmission cables. Wrote Morrison to Strandberg: "The gang is indeed to be congratulated...
...mammoth Alcan project is a prime example of the Morrison method. When the preliminary survey work was done in February 1951, MK's No. 2 man, Jack Bonny, called a big, hearty Swede named Ole Strandberg who was vacationing in Honolulu. "Come on back," said Bonny. "We have a job for you-some dams and tunnels-the kind of stuff you like." Some "dams and tunnels," recalls Strandberg, turned out to be "a ten-mile tunnel, a 50-mile transmission line, the biggest underground powerhouse ever built...
Project Manager Strandberg was responsible for ordering $25 million worth of heavy equipment on his own say-so. He built a network of 26 radio stations to link 25 work camps with shelters for 6,500 men, set up a mile-long aerial tramway to haul 20-ton loads to inaccessible work sites, established what was then the world's biggest helicopter supply fleet outside the U.S. military. When he had manpower and equipment troubles, a phone call to Boise straightened them out. "My top tunnel man," says Strandberg, "was shifted from a job in Afghanistan to my team...
Died. Alfreda Theodore Strandberg Morse, 63, Tin Pan Alley lyricist who collaborated with her composer-husband, the late Theodore Morse, produced some of the nation's alltime popular favorites (Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here; Siboney); in White Plains...
Conditions for the race were excellent, since most of the Harvard racers had well tramped out the course on the preceeding day, and there was ample snow on the trail. Chief of course for the race was, Coach Bill Halsey, and Woody Strandberg and Henry Bigelow assisted as timing and starting officials...