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...favored company is the Pittsburgh-based Dravo Corp., which in 1983 underbid four other builders to win a $102.9 million contract to construct a steam plant for the Navy at the Portsmouth, Va., shipyard. When Dravo discovered its design would not work as promised, it had to redesign the plant. By August of last year, the company faced increased costs of almost $25 million. Dravo's Washington Lobbyist Martin Hamberger did not waste time trying to persuade unsympathetic Navy brass to renegotiate. Instead he went to Specter, asking for a bailout. The Senator received $9,500 from Dravo's political...
Hamberger argued that the Government got a better plant than it had bargained for. Specter would not comment on the matter; a staffer said the Senator "did nothing for Dravo that he doesn't do regularly for Pennsylvania companies, many of whom are not contributors." Buried in the 97-page bill, Specter's measure was approved with little fuss, and it later became part of last year's $290 billion defense appropriation. Congress added a dash of austerity: a $10 million cap was put on the amount Dravo could be reimbursed...
...personal visit. "They have to become salesmen again," says Eugene Jannuzi, chairman of Pennsylvania's Moltrup Steel Products Co. There is a much longer delay between a customer's inquiries and the actual placement of orders. Robert Dickey III, president of Pittsburgh's barge-making Dravo Corp., complains that customers now wait until the last minute to seal deals that would have been immediately snapped up six months...
Importing Men. Some companies are taking advantage of the Government's liberal rules for admitting immigrants who have needed skills. Faced with a dearth of pipe fitters and carpenters, Pittsburgh's Dravo Corp. has been importing European employees through Canada. Kaynar Manufacturing Co. of Fullerton, Calif., is seeking to bring in Japanese workers to meet its demand for machine-tool operators. New York City social-service agencies have begun referring welfare recipients to taxi companies, whose shortage of 2,500 drivers has aggravated the chronic scarcity of cabs on city streets. Brokerage houses offer as much...
...would you like to do your husband a big favor?" cooed the radio ad. "It doesn't involve more cooking or housework." With that come-on, Pittsburgh's Dravo Corp. took into the kitchen its urgent plea for more engineers, draftsmen and designers: "Just mention Dravo to him when he gets home tonight...