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This is the vision of short, hardheaded, vigorous Bror Gustave Dahlberg (62), president of Celotex Corp. No idle dreamer, artist's son Dahlberg promoted the original company which developed an insulating board out of a waste product (sugar cane stalks after the juice is squeezed out) and sold these boards to a building industry which knew little about heat insulation. A sugar famine and 1929 put Celotex into receivership. Reorganized under Dahlberg, Celotex acquired control of Certainteed Products Corp. (roofing, gypsum, plaster), began to merchandise many of the products required to build a house. Celotex makes Cemesto-a waterproof...
Died. William Andrew Johnson, 87, onetime slave of President Andrew Johnson; in Knoxville. In 1937 he chatted with Franklin Roosevelt about the Emancipator's successor, received an FDR-initialed silver-headed cane to take back to his pastry kitchen...
...Bahamas' tourist trade; most defense installations are finished. After months of unemployment, a minimum of 30? an hour-the prevailing rate-in the Florida vegetable fields looked mighty good to Bahamians. Florida planters, worrying about getting beans, tomatoes and sugar cane harvested, were equally delighted. Ever since last fall they had clamored for permission to import foreign labor. The War Manpower Commission turned them down, fearing a flood of cheap labor, finally okayed the plan. In the Bahamas, the Duke of Windsor did all he could to help...
...crowd on the stairs and on the landing were pressed together like stalks of sugar cane in a hydraulic press. They were crushed together that way for half an hour...
Last week he had an additional worry: his reed supply. The cane from which oboe reeds are made grows only in the glens around the town of Fréjus in southern France. Until the defeat of Hitler, Tabuteau's career rests on a dwindling hoard of a few hundred twigs of cane kept on a Philadelphia shelf...