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Francis Trenholm Crowe ( October 12, 1882 – February 26, 1946) was a Canadian civil engineer and employee of Morrison-Knudsen, who later became in 1931, the General Construction Superintendent of the Hoover Dam construction contract.
Chief engineer: Frank Crowe. Frank Crowe had a motto: Never my belly to a desk. The testimony of the loyal workers who followed him from construction job to construction job indicated that...
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Frank Peter Joseph Crosetti (October 4, 1910 – February 11, 2002) was an American baseball shortstop. Nicknamed "the Crow", he spent his entire seventeen-year Major League Baseball playing career with the New York Yankees before becoming a coach with the franchise for an additional twenty seasons.
The men of Six Companies, at the urging of Harry Morrison, turned to Frank Crowe to come up with a number that would get them the job. Considered the finest construction man in the country,...
Frank Crowe was a civil engineer who built several dams in the West, including Hoover Dam. He was known for his innovation, efficiency, and leadership in construction, and for his motto "never my belly to a desk".
Feb 7, 1999 · But Crowe's work as a dam builder forever changed the face of the American West, and his successful completion of Hoover Dam in 1935 made possible the Southern Nevada we know today. Crowe was...
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Oct 12, 2021 · Learn about Frank Crowe, the chief engineer of Hoover Dam, the largest dam in American history. See photos of his innovative methods, the dam construction, and the final result.
