I can remember when the originally bid out the main Alaska Pipeline--huge contractors like Guy F. Atkinson, and M&C, and Perini were having to go together just to tender a bid. No one company was capitalized well enough to bid on the job.

                   A lot of contractors thought the government should split the work up and put out separate contracts. The government didn't want to do that. I think they were right, but there was a lot of belly-aching about it at the time.