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...Sverdrup & Parcel, consulting engineers for the MBTA, are conducting a thirty-eight week study to determine the final route...
...Sverdrup & Parcel & Associates...
...months before Pearl Harbor, U.S. Army engineers asked Sverdrup to chart a string of air bases for a plane-ferrying route to the Philippines and Australia; he was in the Fiji Islands when war came...
Tobacco & Trinkets. Sverdrup, still a civilian, hopped to Australia to plan a vital supply highway from Melbourne to Darwin. Later, after donning a colonel's uniform, he led the building of 200 airstrips and airfields and scores of military roads and bridges. The landing fields on New Guinea were stamped out of jungle & tall grass by the bare feet of Sverdrup's loinclothed "Papuan Aviation Battalion," who were paid in tobacco and trinkets. After rising to brigadier, then major general, Sverdrup came back to Missouri to work harder than ever in peacetime. His firm designed a $30 million...
...busy that he commutes between jobs in his own DC-3, Jack Sverdrup, now 52, was eager to tackle his new assignment in supersonics, happily described it as "waltzing around in unknown pastures...