Stephen Bechtel : Global Builder
German U-boats were sending Allied merchant ships to the bottom twice as fast as shipyards could build them. The U.S. Maritime Commission, desperately seeking an outfit to build 60 cargo ships for its allies. Stephen Bechtel insisted on getting the order for all 60. "Size can work to your advantage if you think big, you just recognize it and move the decimal point over."
Thinking big was Steve Bechtel's forte. He learned to appreciate scale as the primary manager in the building of Hoover Dam, then the largest public works project in the U.S. history.
斯蒂芬·贝克特尔:全球建设者
德国u型潜艇以造船厂建造速度的两倍将盟军商船击沉海底。美国海事委员会(U.S. Maritime Commission)迫切希望为其盟国建造60艘货船。斯蒂芬·柏克德坚持要得到全部60台的订单。“如果你想得大，你只要认识到它，把小数点移过去，大小就会对你有利。”
“胸怀大志”是史蒂夫·柏克德的拿手好手。作为胡佛大坝建设的主要负责人，他学会了欣赏规模，当时胡佛大坝是美国历史上最大的公共工程项目。
Write an essay within 250 words, introducing a famous builder, with the help of topic sentences.
在主题句的帮助下，写一篇250字以内的文章，介绍一位著名的建设者。
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None of that has prevented the company. The company, still family controlled, had 1997 revenues of $11.3 billion; its projects ranging from a transit system in Athens to a semiconductor plant in China. These and others were fruits of Bechtel's forward thinking - decades before the term global economy became a cliche.
所有这些都没有阻止这家公司。这家仍由家族控股的公司1997年的收入为113亿美元;它的项目从雅典的一个运输系统到中国的一个半导体工厂。这些和其他一些都是柏克德前瞻性思维的成果——早在“全球经济”一词成为陈词滥调的几十年前。
The company Bechtel built was not universally loved. McCone came early in a long line of men who filled high offices alternately in Bechtel and the Federal Government. That led to charges of undue influence - by whom on whom was never quite clear. The company's penchant for secrecy didn't help its reputation either. The Justice Department charged that Bechtel had gone too far to please Arab clients by blacklisting potential subcontractors who dealt with Israel. Bechtel signed a consent decree promising not to join any Arab boycott of Israel.
柏克德建立的公司并没有受到所有人的喜爱。麦克科尼很早就加入了在贝克特尔和联邦政府交替担任要职的行列。这导致了对谁施加了不正当影响的指控——谁对谁施加了不太清楚的影响。该公司对保密的偏好也无助于提高其声誉。美国司法部指控柏克德公司为了取悦阿拉伯客户，将与以色列有业务往来的潜在分包商列入黑名单。柏克德签署了一项同意法令，承诺不会加入任何阿拉伯国家对以色列的抵制。
After Hoover, Bechtel was convinced he and his outfit had no limits, and he set out to prove it. He ,in addition to its shipyards, built bases and ran plants that modified bombers and rebuilt jeeps. He built a top-secret pipeline through the Canadian wilderness to Alaska, under primitive conditions. The pace left him so fatigued that he briefly retired. But he would not be on the shelf long.
胡佛之后，Bechtel确信他和他的装备没有限制，于是他开始证明这一点。除了造船厂外，他还建造了基地，经营着改装轰炸机和重建吉普车的工厂。他在原始的条件下，建造了一条通过加拿大荒野到阿拉斯加的绝密管道。步调使他疲惫不堪，以致于他短暂地退休了。但他不会在架子上呆太久。
His father died in 1989, six months short of his 89th birthday. In his prime, he was trim, well tailored and relatively soft voiced, with the ingratiating manner of a salesman.
Bechtel got on the map in a place that was almost off it: Black Canyon, Nev. With the Depression raging in 1931, his father helped organize a consortium called Six Companies to tackle the massive engineering job that became known as Hoover Dam. The consortium bid $49 million and made a profit.
In the course of five years workers excavated 3.7 million cu yds of rock and poured 4.4 million cu yds of concrete; the main arch of the dam towered 70 stories high. He became chief executive o…