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Brown and Root was founded in Texas in 1919 by two brothers, George Brown and Herman Brown with money from their brother-in-law, Dan Root. The company began its operations by supervising small road-paving projects, but grew to building enormously complex oil platforms, dams, and Navy warships.
One of its first large-scale projects, according to the book Cadillac Desert, was to build a dam on the Texas Colorado River near Austin during the Depression years. For assistance in federal payments, the company turned to the local congressman, Lyndon Baines Johnson.
During World War II, Brown & Root built the Corpus Christi Naval Air Station and a series of warships for the U.S. Government.
In 1947Events January January 1 British mines nationalized January 1 Nigeria gains limited autonomy January 1 The Canadian Citizenship Act went into effect January 3 Proceedings of the United States Congress are televised for the first time. January 10 United Na, Brown & Root built of the world's first offshore platform .
Brown and Root had a well-documented relationship with Lyndon Johnson which began when he used his position as a Texas congressman to assist them in landing a lucrative dam contract. In return they gave him the funds to "steal" the 1948 senate race from the popular Coke R. StevensonCoke Robert Stevenson ( March 20, 1888 June 28, 1975) was a U. political figure. He served as the Governor of Texas from 1941 to 1947. He was the son of Robert Milton and Virginia Hurley Stevenson, who named him after Thomas Coke, a Methodist bishop.. The relationship continued for years, with Johnson funneling dozens of military construction contracts to B&R.
Following the death of Herman Brown , Halliburton acquired Brown & Root in December 1962Events January January 1 Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand January 3 Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro January 4 New York City introduces a train that operates without a crew on-board January 8 Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is e. According to Dan Briody , who wrote a book on the subject, the company became part of a consortium of four companies that built about eighty-five per cent of the infrastructure needed by the Army during the Vietnam War. At the height of the war resistance movement of the '60s, Brown & Root was derided as "Burn & Loot" by protesters and soldiers.
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