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...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...
Workmen on the 8:30 a.m.-to-4:30 p.m. shift cheered, picked up their lunch pails, went home. Workmen on the next shift were already 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...
...over the U.S. last week, superintendents, foremen, brass hats, workmen in the shipbuilding industry shared Mr. O'Laughlin's elation. Last week Donald Nelson announced that U.S. war production had increased 350% since Pearl Harbor, but his figure does not apply to the shipbuilding industry. Since Pearl Harbor, shipbuilders have increased production roughly...
...with 8,000,000 residents of New England, all members of the University over 18 and military personnel away from their units, should register in Memorial Hall during the next four days for their share in the nation's sugar supply, it was stressed Saturday by John J. O'Laughlin, Secretary of the Cambridge Rationing Board...
Prime accusations: on Feb. 21 Jones & Laughlin was ordered to ship no steel pipe after March 14, except on preference orders rated A-9 or higher. Although the company had not manufactured such pipe since October 1941, it immediately put large quantities of high-quality steel into pipe production, and from February 25 to March 12 produced 570,000 feet of pipe. Only 12% of this total was delivered on rated orders. The rest went to civilian use. Summarized WPB: "These violations . . . contribute towards defeat of the declared intention of Congress...