GC3BQHR History Fact or Fiction - M&M (Traditional Cache) in Maryland, United States created by nomaland

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Hidden : 1/29/2012

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The steel bridge you are looking at was builted in 1932 by McClintic - Marshall / Bethleham Steel

In 1890 Charles D. Marshall and Howard McClintic appealed to Andrew Mellon for the funding to start another construction firm called the McClintic-Marshall Construction Company. The new business opened in Pottstown, Pennsylvania in 1900. It took less than thirty years for M-M to become the largest independent steel manufacturing firm in the country.

The company’s first work order was to build a new Marshall Field’s Store in downtown Chicago. From there they took off, and by 1930 McClintic-Marshall was the largest independent steel manufacturer in the country. The scale and scope of the projects they completed in their four decades of existence is nothing short of astonishing: the George Washington Bridge, the Waldorff Astoria Hotel, half of the floors in the Empire State Building, the Hells Gate Bridge over New York City’s East River, the Black Hawk Bridge over the Mississippi River in Lansing, Iowa, and dozens more. It took the company two years beginning in 1927 to build the Ambassador Bridge over the Detroit River. Its 1850 foot center span made it the longest bridge in the world until the George Washington Bridge, another M-M project, was given that distinction in 1931. In 1937, the Golden Gate Bridge replaced the GW Bridge for the title with an incredible 4200 foot center span. McClintic-Marshall is known best for its work on the Golden Gate, a project that took four years to complete and required 83,000 tons of steel shipped from the East Coast to San Francisco through the Panama Canal--yet another M-M project. The locks of the canal were eighty-two feet high and each weighed about 745 tons. They were built from 1911-1914.

By 1929, the McClintic-Marshall Company had $50 million in projects a year and had a steel manufacturing capacity of 600,000 tons. In 1931, when the firm was making $8 million a year in dividends, it was acquired by Bethlehem Steel for $32 million. The company name was dissolved several years later during construction of the Golden Gate, and Marshall was appointed to Bethlehem Steel's Board.

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