American corporate joint venture formed to build the Hoover Dam
This article is about the consortium that built the Hoover Dam. For the Chinese association, see Chinese Six Companies.
Six Companies, Inc.
Company type
Joint venture
Industry
Construction
Railroad
Founded
February 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.
^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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