Water Resources: Hydraulics and Hydrology
Yes. The Corps had very little experience in designing navigation structures before 1940,
so there wasn't much information available for developing design criteria.
Q ..
It wasn't part of their business?
A:
Not until after 1940.
Did you have any problem selling that concept, the need for this?
A:
No.
There was no opposition to that?
A:
No. Slichter was Chief of the Engineering Division in OCE, and he knew the value of
design criteria, of using the information we have better.
sold it to Pick, who was Chief
of Engineers then.
Engineering Division, Civil Works,
What were the people like who you worked with in the Engineering Division?
A:
What were they like?
Yes. You talked about Slichter a little bit.
A:
All like me. [Laughter] Trying to get a job done. They were well-qualified engineers and
managers.
Q ..
How much difference was there between Slichter and Wendell Johnson in the way they ran
the Engineering Division?
A:
Slichter and Wendell were quite a bit the same. They were both well-organized engineers
and managers. They were especially good at talking to the higher-level uniformed people
and getting their support. It would have been much harder for me to do it, because--well,
they had experience with it. When they came into the Chief's Office, they'd had a lot of
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