Yahoo Answers is shutting down on May 4th, 2021 (Eastern Time) and beginning April 20th, 2021 (Eastern Time) the Yahoo Answers website will be in read-only mode. There will be no changes to other Yahoo properties or services, or your Yahoo account. You can find more information about the Yahoo Answers shutdown and how to download your data on this help page.

Which small business built the Hoover Dam?

Update:

Libby: With whose money?

10 Answers

Relevance
  • 9 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    So you are against small business?

  • J&J
    Lv 5
    9 years ago

    Aren't you sad and embarrassed that you have to defend President Obama's twisted view of businesses and jobs in relation to the government?

    It was the hard work of smaller businesses that the government contracted that built the Hoover Dam. The money came from taxpayers - corporate and individual. What is your point?

    Time to take down your faded poster of Obama.

  • 9 years ago

    The Hoover Dam was built by Six Companies Inc, which was actually a consortium of several companies.

    http://www.generalcontractor.com/resources/article...

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    The Utah Construction Company did.

    A private construction firm.

    "The Wattis Brothers, heads of the Utah Construction Company, were interested in bidding on the project, but lacked the money for the performance bond. They lacked sufficient resources even in combination with their longtime partners, Morrison-Knudsen, which employed the nation's leading dam builder, Frank Crowe. They formed a joint venture to bid for the project with Pacific Bridge Company of Portland, Oregon; Henry J. Kaiser & W. A. Bechtel Company of San Francisco; MacDonald & Kahn Ltd. of Los Angeles; and the J.F. Shea Company of Portland, Oregon.[23] The joint venture was called Six Companies, Inc.—Bechtel and Kaiser were considered one company for purposes of the name. The name was descriptive and was an inside joke among the San Franciscans in the bid—"Six Companies" was a Chinese benevolent association in the city."

  • How do you think about the answers? You can sign in to vote the answer.
  • pdooma
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    I thought you folks hated Hoover.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    Dams R Us

  • 9 years ago

    All the people who had jobs - loved it.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    9 years ago

    I hear Obama wants it torn down so the minnows can get past it

  • 9 years ago

    To add to your point:

    I was amazed to learn that Republicans at the convention were too stupid to know that when Obama said, "You didn't build that," that Obama was referring to the infrastructure.

    For the Republicans, in their speeches at the convention, said, in effect, "Romney is so lame that the best we can do is deliberately misunderstand Obama. We simply can't say anything good about Romney, so we'll just look stupid instead."

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    This has to be the question of the week ! Well said !

Still have questions? Get your answers by asking now.