Franklin F. Snyder
Q ..
Yes, I guess there is something like that.
A ...
Yes. But he would chew this stuff. His teeth were really discolored. That was just
a natural habit that the people had, chewing that stuff. Certainly didn't do anything
for his teeth. But he was, he always did right by me.
Q.
Which is all that matters in the long run.
A.
Yes, yes. As I say, he had a sense of humor. Somehow or other we struck it off
pretty good. But after Pakistan split off, East Pakistan became independent as
Bangladesh, why, then we started doing some jobs in Pakistan itself. We worked
on a dam site down below Tarbella, the big dam. They were finishing Tarbella, but
there was still one possible additional dam site downstream that they were trying to
get the World Bank to finance. It was a real difficult site for the structural
engineers.
I remember one time, my wife was with me there, too, and we were not operating
out of Karachi, but we were operating out of the city of, in the upper country.
Q ..
Lahore?
A
Lahore, yes. One of the consultants was Ed Fucik from Chicago, the Harza
Engineering Company in Chicago. He was one of the U.S. members of the board.
His wife was in Lahore, too. The Board went on a trip up to the dam site, and Mrs.
Snyder got fairly well acquainted with Mrs. Fucik. I think his wife was a Harza and
that he was a major owner of the company. A side light--Mrs. Fucik wondered why
my wife put a pair of my shoes outside of the hotel room door each night to be
polished. Her answer was that people would not know that I was away.
Anyhow, we went on a field trip. They took us by train and pullman cars up as far
as they could go and then we went by jeep to the dam site. You wondered how they
could find the dam site there. They were working on one, and I think they're still
working on it. I don't know whether they got financing, whether they ever started
it or not.
But Tarbela, the big dam upstream, you probably don't remember. They had a
blowout. The dam was a tremendous large dam. The reservoir was nearly full and
a tunnel blew out the whole upper face of the dam. It was an earthen or rock fill
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