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...Updike's contribution to the frontispiece, cites the popular misconception about springtime joys on the banks of the Charles. He sums up his feeling with: "I'm just a creeping socialist, and you can be sure as shootin' that the next TVA-like project I sponsor will be a dam to head off the Charles at West Newton." Not neglecting baseball, G. E. Vaillant has, written "Dink Stover at Sarasota," in which the fabled athlete tries to make the major leagues in the best Yale manner. He fails...
Crawling & Walking. For the next few years, M-K crawled, and after that, says Morrison, "it walked." In 1914, M-K made $14,000 on a $120,000 contract for Three-Mile Falls Dam on Oregon's Umatilla River. "Up to then," says Morrison, "I really had no idea that you could make money on a dam. But when we came out with more than 10%-what a lift!" The other great event of that year was his marriage to Anna Daly, who lived next door to Morrison's sister in Boise...
With his shiny new equipment, Morrison joined the big Utah Construction Co. in 1925 on a joint bid for the $2,300,000 Guernsey Dam in Wyoming, followed it up with another for Deadwood Dam in the mountains of central Idaho. The experience gave M-K the know-how to tackle the biggest of them all in 1931-the Arizona-Nevada giant Hoover Dam that was to rise 726 ft. above the Colorado River, generate power at the rate of 4 billion kw. a year. On Deadwood, M-K used some of the first bulldozers, began testing diesel trucks...
...Hoover Dam, Harry Morrison put together the famed Six Companies, Inc.,-and contributed $500,000 as his share of the $5,000,000 capital. Looking back, he cannot help thinking that every dam since Hoover has been an anticlimax. "It's the glamour dam," he says wistfully. "I still can't go down in the elevator and step out on the intake and look up without being inspired." M-K introduced bulldozers to its partners at Hoover, wound up using 60 huge monsters. There, too, M-K showed off a new tunnel-driving technique using drill jumbos, great...
Such big Eastern firms as Ebasco, Raymond Concrete Pile, Merritt-Chapman & Scott, Stone & Webster are building air bases in France and Spain, powerhouses in Greece, a dam in Japan, electric plants in Bombay, Brazil and the Dominican Republic, oil refineries in England, Italy, and Australia, paper mills for Israel, roads through the Belgian Congo, and a new harbor at Auckland...