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...Center would crowd the coyotes out of a 100-square-mile patch of desert, probably somewhere near Boulder Dam or Grand Coulee. Site specifications called for level country surrounded by hilly terrain for "shielding hazardous developments," one million horsepower of cheap electric power, a steady flow of cold water at a rate of 250,000 gallons a minute. By 1955, said the Army, some 4,000 men would be working at the Center...
Some new faces in old jobs last week: James E. Day, 40, well-tailored, Illinois-born investment broker, became president of the Chicago Stock Exchange. To get ready for the job, Jim Day helped build a dam in Arizona, made and lost a fortune in real estate, took a law degree, was vice president of the Exchange for two years. His plan for La Salle Street: get more Midwestern stocks...
When the U.S. First Army hurdled the Channel and plunged into Normandy, it was Omar Bradley who was in command. The First broke the Germans' human dam at Saint-Lo. Bradley was lifted then to command of the Twelfth Army Group. Once again the spectacular Patton got the headlines and the popular applause, lancing through France with his Third Army tanks. But it was Bradley, scowling over his maps, mixing an occasional whiskey old-fashioned with orange marmalade, plodding through the churned-up battlefields of France, who held the destiny of U.S. soldiers in his steady hands...
They found their answer in Sunnyvale's Joshua Hendy Iron Works, largest machinery maker in the West Coast. California's famed "Six Companies," which built Boulder Dam and owned Calship, already owned a controlling interest in Hendy. They decided it was time to own it all. So they bought out the 25% interest of Hendy President Charles E. Moore, who had other business interests and no taste for the strike which had shut Hendy's San Francisco plant. As the new president of Hendy, McCone took on the job of settling the strike...
...Work. Already 50 workmen had been hired to repair outlet valves on the 684-ft.-wide dam, patch up the ancient bunkhouses, put the powerhouse in operation, recap and creosote the dock pilings. Topflight Swedish engineers had been asked for estimates on electric furnaces and other key installations. To get things ready, between $500,000 and $1,000,000 would be spent...