Monday the store Parisian Colette see redI feel no heat in the vacuum of the beyondBooks can be used in an internal competitionNot easy to fight Apple Google RIM and Samsungl June 2005 the trust refused to VillepinWe must keep their eyes open to the worldThe InterUnion still have meaningOf courseJustice Department for six months on the terms of the takeover of Merrill LynchFurthermore unemployment is rising againSince midSeptember the stock markets mark wayIn the 1930s however, with the worsening of the crisis, the Brown brothers seek something more consisting of under the tooth. The huge public building by Roosevelt under the New Deal, give them the opportunity. For some time, Herman and George Brown are ankle with Alvin Wirtz. Former Senator of Texas is now the head of a law firm specializing in public procurement. Always for money, man of the shadows is his interpersonal skills and the address book in the service of the Texas industrial, with a few "offsets". Over the years, it became one of the closest advisors of the Brown Brothers highly pay its benefits. By Wirtz, the Brown Brothers also had access to James - Paul Buchanan, representing Texas in the United States Congress, but also and especially Chairman of the Committee of the funding of the New Deal. A relationship in gold! In 1936, Wirtz, Buchanan and the Brown Brothers rise and a shot of first-order: the construction of a dam on the Colorado River. To get the green light from the federal administration hesitant, Wirtz is before nothing, not hesitating to change the layout of the maps and widely using funds of Brown & Root to buy Buchanan benevolence. With success. In 1936, Alvin Wirtz is very conveniently appointed at the head of the Lower Colorado River Authority (ACSF), the body responsible for carrying out the construction of the Marshall Ford dam. Barely appointed, he refers to his client Brown & Root awarded the contract. The firm has never built dams... The totally unexpected death of Buchanan, in 1937, a time comes all questioning. By chance, the man who seeks the seat of the deceased is a close friend of Wirtz, an ambitious politician devoid of means but has the immense advantage of being close to Lyndon Johnson. The Brown Brothers, who are concerned for the future, Wirtz promises support to Johnson, in exchange for his election. The deal to tie a few months before the elections of 1937, at the famous meeting after F8 in the Lamar hotel in Houston. A few weeks after the elections and after an ultimate intervention of Johnson to President Roosevelt, the Marshall Ford dam construction is attributed to Brown & Root. It is on this occasion that the firm opens a type of contract that will make his fortune: the "cost more. It provides full refund of the costs of construction, aggravated by a percentage on the latter paid in respect of the remuneration of the contractor. A very juicy system and obviously leads to swelling of the costs. Illustration by example: estimated at 30 million approximately, the Marshall Ford dam will be eventually charged... $ 125 million!
Between Lyndon Johnson and Brown & Root, the links are never distendront. During the second world war, it is largely thanks to the President-elect of the Texas Brown & Root reconverts in the construction of parts for aircraft and runways, thus putting a foot in the military markets. In exchange for this "service", the construction firm generously fund the Johnson campaign for the Senate elections of 1948, forcing even its employees to make individual payments! It's still Brown & Root that will hand the portfolio to ensure its designation to the Vice-Presidency of the United States in 1960, last step before the Presidency three years later. As a reference of Elevator, Brown & Root produces for several hundreds of millions of dollars of contracts with the Army - Air trails, ports, military bases, bridges and roads - not only in the United States but also in Europe and Asia, thus completing of moulting in the Pentagon's preferred provider.
Activities around the world
The death of Erle Halliburton, in 1957, followed by that of Herman Brown, in 1962, is the last key in table. Since the beginning of the 1950s and after the passage of the 1930s, the Halliburton firm expanded its activities anywhere in the world, building of oil wells in the Middle East, Africa and Latin America. But the steady decline in the cost of the barrel eventually begin its revenues and the firm, now run by the descendants of its founder, is looking for new activities. Brown & Root, that presides over an aging, George Brown is, too, toward a future. Unthinkable Erle time - which would have anything to do with the "people of Washington" - and Herman - rechignait to share power - the approximation of the two firms is now possible. Reached the end of 1962, no doubt encouraged by Washington, the assignment of Brown & Root to Halliburton sign the marriage of two Texas companies with complementary activities - oil construction, public works and civil engineering - though it marks the alliance of technical competence and political influence, a formidable efficiency alliance! In the case, however, the company retains the essential: the support of Lyndon Johnson. In fact, in the Viet Nam war, Halliburton became the largest employer in Viet Nam, with 51,000 persons employed to build the American military infrastructure. Between 1965 and 1972, the firm produces in this only part of the world, nearly 400 million dollars of benefits, imposing themselves as one of the main pillars ducomplexe military-industrial! Subsequently, the firm will of juicy business in Iran, in the Balkans, in the Gulf and North Africa - Dick Cheney try also to oppose sanctions against the Libya of Gaddafi, where the firm is very present-, always full advantage of its support at the highest level of the State.
