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Morrison-Knudsen : ウィキペディア英語版 | Morrison-Knudsen Morrison Knudsen Corporation (MK) was a civil engineering and construction company that designed and constructed major infrastructure throughout the world. MK was one of the consortium of firms that built Hoover Dam and the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge, the Trans-Alaska Pipeline and many other large projects of American infrastructure. ==Founders==
MK's origins date to 1905, when Harry Morrison (1885–1971)〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Find a Grave.com )〕 met Morris Knudsen (1862–1943)〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Find a Grave.com )〕 while working on the construction of the New York Canal (irrigation) in southwestern Idaho. Morrison was a 20-year-old concrete superintendent for the Reclamation Service; Knudsen was a forty-something Nebraska farmer (and Danish immigrant) with a team of horses and a fresno scraper.〔Herman, Arthur. ''Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II,'' pp. 37, 51-5, 169-74, Random House, New York, NY, 2012. ISBN 978-1-4000-6964-4.〕 Their first venture together was in 1912, on a pump plant in nearby Grand View, for $14,000. They lost money but gained experience. In 1914 MK earned some revenue when they constructed the Three-Mile Falls Dam in Oregon. For several years the firm built irrigation canals, logging roads, and railways. They incorporated in 1923, the year gross revenues topped $1 million. MK reached a significant milestone with its joint venture in the construction of Hoover (Boulder) dam in 1932-35.〔International Directory of Company Histories. Vol. 28. St. James Press. 1999. page 287〕
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