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  Stephen D. Bechtel, Sr.
Stephen Davison Bechtel (September 24, 1900 - March 14, 1989) was the son of Warren A. Bechtel, the founder of the Bechtel Corporation and the president of the company from 1933 through 1960.
Stephen handing the presidency of the company over to his son, Stephen Jr in 1960, but stayed on as the chairman until 1969.
Stephen was awarded an honorary degree by UC Berkeley in 1954.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/stephen_d__bechtel__sr_   (292 words)

  
 Bechtel Corporation -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Bechtel Corporation (Bechtel Group) is the largest (The branch of engineering concerned with the design and construction of such public works as dams or bridges) civil engineering company in the world.
Bechtel sought a preliminary injunction to block the release of the documents, but the superior court judge in the case denied Bechtel's request on April 11, 2003, opening the way for public release of the documents.
Bechtel has long had close ties to the American government, and with the (The younger of two major political parties in the United States; GOP is an acronym for grand old party) Republican Party specifically.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/be/bechtel_corporation.htm   (3674 words)

  
 CorpWatch : Bechtel: Profiting from Destruction
Bechtel employees like George Shultz not only used their political influence to help bring this war about, but key Bechtel board members and employees with advisory positions to the Bush Administration helped ensure that Bechtel would receive one of the most lucrative contracts for rebuilding what they had helped to destroy.
Bechtel was on the scene when the first nuclear reactor to generate electricity made its debut on Dec. 20, 1951, ushering in the troubled age of atomic energy.
Bechtel designed the only commercial reprocessing plant to have operated in the U.S. at West Valley, N.Y. This facility was a dismal failure in the 6 years it operated (1966-1972), and left behind 600,000 leaking tanks of liquid radioactive waste, a legacy of worker exposures, and environmental contamination.
www.corpwatch.org /article.php?id=6975   (8129 words)

  
 In Bed with Bush — The Bechtel Story
Bechtel, like all the rest of the handful of big corporations that effectively rule America, have their roots in the post-WWII economic 'boom' and the hysteria of the 'Red Menace'.
Bechtel is a major player in the evolving struggle to control the world’s future water supply.
Bechtel also built Occidental's oil pipelines in Colombia as well as in Libya…[Bechtel] even won loan guarantees for Saddam Hussein's proposed Aqaba pipeline in Iraq which were later scuttled.
www.informationclearinghouse.info /article3397.htm   (2285 words)

  
 Bechtel's roots in Mideast / Lucrative projects date back to WWII   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Bechtel built 850 miles of it, finishing in three years despite having to stop work during the first Arab-Israeli war in 1948.
Bechtel's presence in the region was not confined to Saudi Arabia.
Bechtel, which denied the charge, agreed to settle the case with a consent decree saying it would not honor the boycott.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/05/04/MN308549.DTL   (1130 words)

  
 Balik Kalikasan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Warren Bechtel died in 1933 and was succeeded by Stephen D. Bechtel, one of his three sons.
Bechtel's dubious operations were noticed when a reporter, Mark Dowie, ran an expose in Mother Jones magazine in 1978 and then in the Multinational Monitor in 1984.
Bechtel and one John McCone, (who presently works for the Atomic Energy Commission and the CIA) made a killing during those years as they raked in more than $100 million in profits from an initial capital of $400,000.
www.bwf.org /bk/bk1997/balik5_4.html   (670 words)

  
 InfoManage Forums - In Bed with Bush — The Bechtel Story   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Stephen Bechtel Sr.’s financial advisor, John Simpson was very tight with CIA deputy director John Foster Dulles.
Stephen Bechtel’s friend Henry Kearns was the head of the Bank and did Bechtel a wonderful favor by appointing Stephen Bechtel Sr.
Bechtel and other large corporations have been able to obtain legal title to much of the world's water supply through the process of privatization whereby goods and services previously considered part of the public domain become the exclusive property of a wealthy class of elites.
infomanage.com /forums/showthread.php?goto=lastpost&t=5756   (2349 words)

  
 sfweekly.com | News & Features | Sidebar | The World According to Bechtel | 2003-06-18   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Riley Bechtel, a member of the council, is chairman and CEO of Bechtel Group.
Bechtel managed construction of the $20 billion project creating the cities and remains a partner.
Bechtel employees were taken hostage in 1990, while working on a refinery for the Iraqi government.
www.sfweekly.com /issues/2003-06-18/news/sidebar.html   (2277 words)

  
 TIME 100: Builders & Titans - Stephen Bechtel
But Steve Bechtel was, and remained throughout his nearly 70-year career, a visionary whose imagination was fired by grandiose projects--the more seemingly impossible the better.
Bechtel grew up on rugged construction sites where his father Warren, who started the company, punched rail lines and highways through the California wilderness.
Name the Bechtel project that required 4.4 million cubic yards of concrete and 45 million pounds of pipe and steel for completion.
www.time.com /time/time100/profile/bechtel.html   (461 words)

  
 sfweekly.com | | Feature | It's a Bechtel World (Page 3) | 2003-06-18
During the era of Stephen Bechtel Jr., a grandson of the firm's founder who ran it from 1960 to 1990, the company hired George Shultz, who'd been on Bechtel's board of directors, as president.
Bechtel has been both a jumping-off and landing point for countless high- and midlevel government operators during the last 60 years.
Riley Bechtel, who is Stephen D. Bechtel Jr.'s son and the reigning chairman and CEO of his family's firm, is also a third-generation member of San Francisco's all-male Bohemian Club, best known for its Bohemian Grove encampment near the tiny town of Monte Rio in Sonoma County.
www.sfweekly.com /issues/2003-06-18/feature_3.html   (764 words)

  
 Dept. of Connections : The Contractors - News From Babylon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Bechtel is also the global construction and engineering company to which the U.S. government recently awarded the first major multimillion-dollar contract to reconstruct war-ravaged Iraq.
In the first phase of the contract, the U.S. government will pay Bechtel nearly thirty-five million dollars, but experts say that the cost is likely to reach six hundred and eighty million during the next year and a half.
One Fremont director, Riley Bechtel, is the chairman and chief executive officer of the Bechtel Group, and is a member of the Bush Administration: he was appointed this year to serve on the President�s Export Council.
www.newsfrombabylon.com /?q=node/3130&CSID=3fd5795295d4c3c63f76072591c8188d   (2190 words)

  
 TIME Names Steve Bechtel, Sr. to "Builders & Titans" List Magazine Ranks Master Builder Among the 100 ...
Bechtel is the only "Builders and Titans" selection who represents the engineering-construction industry.
Bechtel ran from 1933 to 1960 is this year celebrating its centennial.
Saluting the organization's accomplishments, including many associated with Steve Bechtel, Sr., the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., has mounted an exhibit called "The Business of Innovation: Projects from Bechtel's First Century." An online digest of the exhibit, which runs through January 4, 1999, can be found at www.nbm.org.
www.bechtel.com /newsarticles/199.asp   (272 words)

  
 UC, Bechtel team up for nuclear bid / Private engineering firm enlisted in fight to keep contract to run Los Alamos lab
Bechtel also has contracts to handle nuclear and chemical cleanup at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee and in Hanford, Wash., where the U.S. government once produced plutonium for nuclear weapons.
Bechtel's track record in managing the Nevada Test Site and strong relationship with the Energy Department were seen as key advantages.
Bechtel National President Thomas Hash, in a statement acknowledging UC's past problems at the lab, said his company "will implement the necessary changes, policies and procedures to support world-class science" at Los Alamos.
sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/05/12/MNG0DCNTF01.DTL   (1194 words)

  
 Beta Theta Pi International Fraternity   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
During the 40 years he was president, CEO and chairman of Bechtel Group, it expanded into seven operating companies and experienced tremendous expansion in scope of projects as well as geographically.
Stephen D. Bechtel, Sr., California '23, son of Founder Warren A. Bechtel; top executive responsibilities are in the hands of Chairman Stephen D. Bechtel, Jr., Colorado '47, and President Alden P. Yates, Stanford '51.
While still in his teens, Stephen served in France with the 20th Engineers of the American Expeditionary Force in World War I. After graduation, he joined the family business and made vice president in 1925, president after the death of his father in 1935, chairman in 1960 and senior director upon retirement in 1965.
www.betathetapi.org /news/awards/oxfordcup/06bechtel.htm   (464 words)

  
 JFK, Indonesia, CIA and Freeport Sulphur
Gus Long was a frequent dinner partner of Steve Bechtel, Sr., owner with CIA Director John McCone, of Bechtel-McCone in Los Angeles in the thirties.
Bechtel Sr.'s "oldest and closest friend in the oil industry," Gus Long, had a problem.
Anthropology professor Stephen Feld resigned his position with the university over this issue, saying UT was "no longer a morally acceptable place of employment." The protests about Cunningham's conflict of interest-serving UT and Freeport-led to Cunningham's resignation last December.
www.webcom.com /~lpease/collections/hidden/freeport-indonesia.htm   (6885 words)

  
 Bin Ladens are investors in Bechtel - Chemtrail Central Forum
When the contract was awarded, two weeks ago, the Administration did not mention that the bin Laden family has an ongoing relationship with Bechtel.
* was a Bechtel vice-president for nuclear development before he was appointed as Reagan’s deputy secretary of Energy and head of the Atomic Energy Commission.
This latest appropriation of the 'commons' is done within a legal framework designed, developed, and enforced by international governmental agencies that are dominated by the very same wealthy elite that profit from the legislation it implements.
www.chemtrailcentral.com /ubb/Forum6/HTML/001133.html   (4151 words)

  
 Bechtel - Blog / iPressroom
Bechtel awarded Iraq contract: War profits and the US "military
Bechtel stands to gain much more than the initial contract.
Bechtel is one of the world's largest construction, engineering and project management firms.
www.globalinfoplus.com /?q=bechtel   (189 words)

  
 The HooK: REAL ESTATE- $old
Roger L. and Patricia A. Henry to Stephen McHugh, 2.139 acres at 1713 Stoney Creek Drive, Mill Creek, $259,900.
Stephen D. Lenett to Richard and Julie K. Nelson, unit in Solomon Court condominiums, 2627 Hydraulic Road, $78,500.
William D. Tucker III to Roger L. Anderson and Deanna Beverly, 7154 Johnston Lane, Gordonsville, $115,750.
www.readthehook.com /stories/2004/05/19/realEstateold.html   (2042 words)

  
 JA U.S. Business Hall of Fame   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Stephen D. Bechtel inherited Bechtel Group from his father Warren.
He shifted the company from rudimentary concrete work and earth moving to ship building, engineering for the Atomic Energy Commission, and consulting.
Bechtel emerged as a leader in the field of nuclear power; eventually becoming involved in one third of the nuclear plants built in the United States.
www.ja.org /gbhf/viewLaureate.asp?id=63&alpha=B   (58 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Margaret and James D. Loghry, MFSW director, with Peggy Jacob and her son Reid Jacob (Reid M. Jacob, Inc., Gear Consultant and Erector).
Peggy Jacob accepts the achievement award to a person from mining's past, her husband, H. Myles Jacob (1913-1997), former CEO of the Inspiration Consolidated Copper Company, from Walter E. Heinrichs as Mining Foundation President Martin Kuhn looks on.
V.P. and Manager of Bechtel's Engineering and Construction group, who accepts the award on behalf of Stephen D. Bechtel, Jr.
www.dakotacom.net /~mfsw/photo.htm   (337 words)

  
 Descendents of Michael Wolfgang: Index   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Anderson, Lillian Irene (marriage to Merle D. Wolfgang Sr) (i2389), b.1897-d.1969
Bechtel, Earl Schultz (marriage to Marion Virginia Hepler) (i1696), b.1900-d.1988
Bechtel, Robert (marriage to Helen Louise Korn) (i10811)
www.wolfgangs.org /wolf03/nindex.htm   (3793 words)

  
 Engineering Scholarships   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Applicants must be seniors in engineering, construction, or technology during the year ACI presents the award to the winner.
Bechtel Undergraduate Fellowship Award: Students apply the second semester of their second year.
Philip D. Reed Undergraduate Award in Environmental Engineering: Undergraduates may apply during the second semester of their second year.
www.college.ucla.edu /up/src/engin.htm   (6040 words)

  
 JEAN EDWARD SMITH PAPERS: FOLDER LISTING CONTINUED
Box: 2 Fold: 48 Bechtel, Stephen D. DESCRIPTION: 1 TLS dated 5/10/1971 from S. Bechtel to Jean Edward Smith regarding Smith's desire to interview Bechtel.
Box: 2 Fold: 76 Riley, Stephen T. DESCRIPTION: 1 TLS dated 6/10/1971 from Stephen T. Riley, Director of the Massachusetts Historical Society, to Jean Edward Smith informing him that the Henry Cabot Lodge Papers are open to the public.
Box: 2 Fold: 82 Styer, D. DESCRIPTION: 1 ALS dated 5/6/1971 from Lieutenant General D. Styer to Jean Edward Smith agreeing to be interviewed.
gulib.lausun.georgetown.edu /dept/speccoll/fl/f234}3.htm   (2133 words)

  
 The Man Who Changed America, Part I, March/April 2003 Public Roads
Dwight D. ("Ike") Eisenhower was born on October 14, 1890, in Denison, TX, but was raised in Abilene, KS.
President Eisenhower chose retired General Lucius D. Clay, a trusted advisor, to head the Advisory Committee to develop a finance plan in cooperation with the Governors.
Clay was influential in convincing Eisenhower to seek the presidency in 1952 and, after the election, shared the main responsibility for picking the Cabinet with Herbert Brownell.
www.tfhrc.gov /pubrds/03mar/05.htm   (9737 words)

  
 Haas Alumni Celebration Dinner
As a trustee of the U.C. Berkeley Foundation, he was instrumental in planning and carrying out the successful Campaign for the New Century.
With his brother and sister, he made the cornerstone gift that named the School of Business for their father, Walter Haas, Sr., class of 1910.
Inspired by their example, more than 2,000 people joined to make the building project a success.
haas.berkeley.edu /alumni/events/byl.html   (342 words)

  
 Restoring Encina Hall: 10/21/98
More than a year has passed since this once quiet, gloomy wing started to thump and rattle back to life.
With support from the Stephen D. Bechtel Jr.
"There we were, working on the same thing two other men did a hundred years ago." SR
www.stanford.edu /dept/news/report/news/1998/october21/encina1021.html   (1458 words)

  
 Paperloop.com - leading the pulp, paper, packaging and printing industry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
At the Stevens Point Div., Stephen E. Jukich has been promoted to sr.
The company has announced several new appointments in conjunction with the formation of a single engineering group located in Beloit, Wis. Bill Wight has been named dir.
This annual award is presented to an individual or organization who has made an outstanding contribution to the Automatic Identification and Data Capture Industry.
www.paperloop.com /db_area/archive/p_p_mag/1998/9812/nupeople.htm   (1180 words)

  
 1989   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
March 1 - James D. Watkins starts his term of office as U.S. Secretary of Energy, serving under President George H. Bush
Stephen R. Lawhead writes Arthur part of the Pendragon Cycle
March 17 - Spot Fetcher, presidential pet of George H.W. Bush (d.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/1/1989.htm   (3948 words)

  
 Builders of Berkeley - Timeline
In 1997 it is named for Richard ’41 and Rhoda ’46 Goldman in honor of their gift to the school.
The Bechtel Engineering Center, a gift of Laura and Stephen D. Bechtel Sr.
Poet Czeslaw Milosz, Berkeley’s first Nobelist outside of the sciences, receives the medal in literature.
builders.berkeley.edu /timeline   (1924 words)

  
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There’s too much variation, too many confusing options, while costs and coverage vary so much that comparisons are impossible.
Repeal the Medicare “Part D” Late Enrollment penalty that seniors will pay if they delay in signing up for the new drug plans.
These are a just a few of the most important problems that require prompt attention.
www.tscl.org /action/VolMedicarePresDrugCoverage.asp   (437 words)

  
 Lundberg: Chapter VIII
David Lion Gardiner, dowager empress of New York's proud Gardiner Family, was informed that her young grandson, Robert David Lion Gardiner, was about to go out and play with the Rockefeller children.
Its roster shows that it is obviously a nonelite Democratic opposite number to the Republican Union League Club; it included Franklin D. Roosevelt, Herbert and Irving Lehman, Alvin and Irwin Untermyer, Joseph M. Proskauer and Alfred E. Smith.
Such were, obviously, Joseph Pulitzer and Louis D. Brandeis, who did not see the emerging corporation as an unalloyed boon.
www.soilandhealth.org /03sov/0303critic/030304lberg/030304ch8.html   (19782 words)

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