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#66 Henry Kaiser: Builder in the Modern American West

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The North of Me Is Very Difficult Work, Plus Less People Willing to Do It Equals Opportunity

As work began in the spring of 1931, six companies, that's the joint venture that he's building the Hoover Dam. Kaiser was their point man in Washington. Says few contractors ever began jobs under less favorable circumstances. Daytime temperatures often reached 120, even 130 degrees during summers. Although winters were short, temperatures dropped to 20 degrees and winds created uncomfortably chilly conditions.

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