OWL CONSTRUCTORS AND OWL ROCK PRODUCTS
I was the controller of the construction operations in the United States and some foreign operations which grew from $18 million to $48 million annually. Our data processing operations also kept the records for the Rock Products operations, as well. I had designed the reporting and accounting system which we installed when I joined the company. The company operated over 1100 pieces of rolling stock. Operations included an ICC heavy hauling trucking company, rigging operations, tower line footings for utility companies, generator installations, equipment installations in oil refineries and manufacturing plants, earth moving equipment operation, and a large crane rental fleet. The company offloaded the building materials and equipment, including a railroad locomotive from ships and barges on the Jamaican roadstead on the southwest shore of the island for an alumna processing plant for Kaiser Engineers. This contract involved negotiations with the government of Jamaica over tax liabilities. They delivered the concrete beams for the BART system on the eastern side of the San Francisco Bay. The aggregate operations provided the joint venture with Riverside Cement with the sand and gravel and cement for construction of the California Aqueduct and the construction operations kept the joint venture records.
The crane department moved the live high line towers along the Harbor Freeway (so the road could be widened) without interrupting the power supplied to the Los Angeles and Long Beach Harbors. The trucking department moved the first 268" solid rocket engine (loaded) from Pittsburgh to Cape Canaveral by barge down the inland waterway.
