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Pittsburgh's Dravo Corp., which builds bridge foundations, dams and power plants, has long thought it a waste of time to balance its books down to the last penny. It thought that such meticulous accounting, when it involved estimates on large projects, was not accurate anyway. Five months ago, Dravo's bookkeepers were told to lop off all pennies in most of their accounts, and round their figures out to the nearest dollar. Last week Dravo reported the results: a 40% saving in accounting costs; a 9% reduction in the clerical force...
...Builders. The huge destroyer program is being handled by veteran naval shipbuilders like Bethlehem, Federal (U.S. Steel subsidiary) and Maine's crackerjack Bath Iron Works. Most PC subchaser contracts are held by inland builders like Dravo Corp. in Pittsburgh (where fighting ships are being built for the first time since the War of 1812), and Michigan's DeFoe Shipbuilding. To swing the new & vital destroyer-escort program the Navy picked Bethlehem Steel's reliable yard at Hingham, Mass., and Brown Shipbuilding, a new yard at Houston...
...drizzly afternoon last week Patrick Morgan O'Laughlin pressed a buzzer. Workmen at the Dravo Corporation, on Neville Island near Pittsburgh, knocked the blocks out from under a squat, flat-bottomed craft perched on the ways in Dravo's west yard. A tank landing ship slid down the smoking ways into the Ohio River...
...swarming around a second, identical craft perched on the ways. Paddy O'Laughlin, swearing lustily, pressed another buzzer. Down to the river slid the second ship. Chortled tough, wiry Mr. O'Laughlin, who started his career as a rivet "cooker," rose to become general superintendent of the Dravo yards: "I'm so happy I feel like going home and beating up my wife...
Earned runs-Harvard 3. Three-base hit-Mahar. Two-base hits-Morgan, Clement. Bases on balls-by Castle: Powell; by Badgeley: Kemble, Randall. Struck out-by Castle: Landefeldt, Bowman; by Coburn; Badgeley, Dravo, Powell; by Taylor: Madden, Badgeley, Clement; by Badgeley: Mahar 2, Colby, Coburn; Matthews. Umpire - Murray. Time...