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no autopsy. Someone in the Kremlin, perhaps Stalin, had
changed his mind about allowing Bechtel to inspect the
dam.
Stephen Bechtel found a ready ally in the aggressive
business acumen of John McCone. They formed a
separate company, Bechtel-McCone, in the nick of time
before World War II broke out. In Dec. 1940, they got an
order of $210 million for sixty British freighters, to be built
in alliance with Admiral Vickery of Bath Iron Works.
McCone and partners later made 844 million profit on
Liberty ships built at their Sausalito plant. They also
owned California Shipbuilding, a Los Angeles yard which
turned out 967 ships during the war, as well as
Marinship, the Oregon Shipbuilding Co. They owned
Joshua Hendy Corp. an ironmonger which built the
engines for Liberty ships. By Sept., 1943, they had more
than $3 billion in shipbuilding orders. The crews of
Liberty ships made wry jokes about the propensity of
these hastily flung together productions to break in two
during high seas. Many of them were torpedoed before
they could fall apart. Time noted that "Marinship turned
out 460 freighters and 90 tankers at breakneck speed."
The partners also built the colossal Army modification
center at Birmingham Ala. to handle the B-29 output from
Willow Run; they built the Alaskan Military Highway, and
other projects. During this defense activity, Bechtel and
McCone prudently remained in the background, allowing
their proteges, the Kaisers, to be publicized as the
important figures. Fortune pointed out that Kaiser was