Six Companies
American corporate joint venture formed to build the Hoover Dam / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the consortium that built the Hoover Dam. For the Chinese association, see Chinese Six Companies.
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]
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Company type | Joint venture |
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Founded | February 1931; 93 years ago (1931-02) |
Key people | Frank Crowe |
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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.