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Six Companies, Inc.
Company typeJoint venture
Industry
  • Construction
  • Railroad
FoundedFebruary 1931; 93 years ago (1931-02)
Key people
Frank Crowe
Owners
  • Kaiser-Bechtel (30%)
  • MacDonald and Kahn (20%)
  • Utah Construction Company (20%)
  • Morrison-Knudsen (10%)
  • Pacific Bridge Company (10%)
  • J.F. Shea Co (10%)

Six Companies, Inc. was a joint venture of construction companies that was formed to build the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River in Nevada and Arizona.[1]

They later built Parker Dam, a portion of the Grand Coulee Dam, the Colorado River Aqueduct across the Mojave and Colorado Deserts to urban Southern California, and many other large projects.

  1. ^ Herman, Arthur (2012). Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II. New York: Random House. pp. 37, 52–5, 210. ISBN 978-1-4000-6964-4.

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