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...secretary of P.B.H., and his wife will be directors of the group of from 25 to 30 college men and women who propose to study the problems of a typical small town at the same time that they help reclaim 500 acres of flooded community land by building a dam...
...have no intention of detracting in any manner from the fine accomplishments of Mr. Henry Kaiser, as listed in your March 3 issue under Business & Finance, but, as a matter of fact, Shasta Dam in northern California is not being constructed by Mr. Kaiser, or by any of his companies. The general contract for the construction of that dam is held by Pacific Constructors, Inc., president of which is Wm. A. Johnson; secretary, J. C. Maguire; and general superintendent, F. T. Crowe. Mr. Kaiser has no connection with this company...
However, no particular honor is lost by Mr. Kaiser in this regard, inasmuch as he was a principal in the construction of the Boulder Dam (the world's highest) and Grand Coulee Dam (the world's largest in point of volume of concrete). Shasta, when finished, will be second-highest and secondlargest...
...seven weeks between June 27 and August 15, 18 to 20 college men, including a maximum of 15 from Harvard, will reconstruct a dam which was washed out fourteen years ago, causing considerable crop damage since then by allowing annual floods to prevent planting...
Dynamic Engineer Kaiser does not recognize nature's other obstacles any more than he kowtows to time. He has headed companies which helped build the Grand Coulee Dam (largest in the world), the Boulder and Bonneville dams, the San Francisco-Oakland Bridge (longest in the world). When slides threatened to hold up work at Coulee, he froze a hillside solid to keep it in place. At Shasta Dam, which he is now building in northern California, he ran a ten-mile conveyor belt smack over a mountain when railroads refused to run a spur to his construction camp...