Franklin F. Snyder
originally, but when the rebuilding and the redoing it went on, he was over there a
number of times.
Q ..
Well, he told me in the interview that the quality of the construction wasn't very
good in some of those dams. That the tolerances were very bad.
A ..
The what?
Q ..
You know, the quality of the construction. He had a problem in one of the dams
where the joints just didn't fit right in this concrete spillway. He said it led to a lot
of erosion down there, and he said the quality just wasn't good enough.
A ..
Well, I'm sure whether it was an earth or a rock dam, I'm sure there was a concrete
spillway. The spillway was over on the other side of the dam, as I remember. They
had trouble with the stilling basin and everything there and I'm sure that's what Jake
was involved in. They worked on that, I think some little time even after they had
taken care of the damaged part. They were working on the spillway and the outlets
over on the other side of the dam for some time.
Q ..
Yes, because he was working with Harza on that.
A ..
Yes, Harza or TAMS.
Q ..
They had him on that one. Are there any other things in Pakistan or that area that
you got involved with?
When we were in Bangladesh, the beggars were everywhere, and this was years ago.
A
That country's a disaster. I mean there's just no way they're ever going to be able
to support themselves. Britain and several of the big countries know this, and so
they have a consortium that sort of looks after them on projects and things like that.
When -we'd leave the hotel in the morning, the streets would be lined with beggars.
There'd be women there holding babies. They told us that they rented the babies
just to help out with their begging. It was not a happy situation.
Mary was with me several times in East Pakistan, or at least once. The engineering
company had a local office there, and the manager's wife took Mary on a shopping
tour and she said that was something, too. They had a chauffeur. I'm trying to
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