Erecting million-dollar bridge in Washington. Archie A. Alexander, senior partner in the firm of Alexander and Repass of Des Moines, Iowa, contractors of the million-dollar bridge being built across the Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C. Mr. Alexander and Maurice A. Repass were classmates at the School of Engineering at the Univeristy of Iowa and half-backs on the varsity football team. They have been business partners for twenty-eight years