The History of Terrorism
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1919-1962 Brown & Root
1936 Brown & Root was awarded a contract to construct the Marshall Ford Dam (now known as the Mansfield Dam).
1937 Brown & Root was the principal source of campaign funds after Johnson's initial run for Congress in 1937, in return for persuading the Bureau of Reclamation to change its rules against paying for a dam on land the federal government did not own,...
1937 The construction on the Marshall Ford Dam was almost stopped in 1937 but was allowed to continue when Lyndon B. Johnson (then a very junior congressman) helped push through special legislation.
1941 Navy officials asked the Brown brothers to build four submarine chasers. The brothers had no shipbuilding experience, but had helped build Naval Air Station Corpus Christi.
1942-1945? Brown Shipbuilding
1947 Brown created an innovative oil platform design that was the first to be built out of sight of land.
According to Texas Monthly, the 8F Crowd had gained "unequaled influence in state and national government" after the end World War II when George R. Brown, Gus Wortham, and Charles Francis of Vinson & Elkins founded Texas Eastern.
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