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One of the two corporate beneficiaries of the US Navy's multi-year defense related contracts in San Juan and Vieques during the coldwar period. The second is Consolidated Engineering Company Inc.

• Industry: Materials
• Based out of: 34 LOVETON CIRCLE Sparks, MD 21152

<aside> 👇🏽 What Cesar J. Ayala and Jose L. Bolivar say

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“On October 30, 1939, a month after the start of hostilities in Europe, the U.S. Navy selected the Arundel Corporation and the Consolidated Engineering Company, Inc., two corporations based in Baltimore, after competing successfully with ‘the most outstanding construction firms in the United States.’ … Due to the remoteness of the work to be performed from the continental United Sates, the contract was negotiated and awarded on a cost-plus-fixed-fee basis. The Vieques project would be part of the greatly expanded system of bases, and it was projected that it would eventually displace the citizens of Vieques, while the navy would acquire two thirds of the landmass of the entire island. The land used to build the military installations was obtained in a variety of ways, including purchases, donations, but principally expropriations by condemnation under existing eminent domain laws.”

Cesar J. Ayala and Jose L. Bolivar (Battleship Vieques: Puerto Rico from World War II to the Korean War)