Word: celotex
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...above a year ago; retail profits were even higher. Last week Sewell Avery's Montgomery Ward reported $20,558,000 net profit for the six months ending July-nearly three times as much as a year ago. There was other insulation: Bror Dahlberg's Celotex Corp. (wall board, asphalt and gypsum products) piled up profits of $2,436,330 for the nine months ending July 31, 400% over...
Since 1940, Stravinsky has lived in his own house in Hollywood ("The only way to escape Hollywood is to live there"), where he composes in a Celotex-lined room. When he is not working he passes time with his rose gardens, four pairs of lovebirds and a friendly black cat who sleeps on the birds' cages. Though he has never written for films, he has composed for almost everything else. He wrote ballets for Ringling Brothers' Circus and for Billy Rose (Scenes de Ballet), a dissonantly reharmonized Star-Spangled Banner (to celebrate his U.S. citizenship...
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...
...betide high-rate mortgage holders, owners of real estate who want to conserve equities, municipalities which retard progress with high taxes and antiquated building codes! Celotex's Dahlberg is prepared to crush them with the cry: "Your rights cannot override the rights of the people!" If cities won't tear down buildings, replan streets, extend their limits, or if whole municipalities won't merge: "We must move to other fields and abandon such cities to their fate...
...Under wartime restrictions the panels are made of celotex and wallboard. But they could be made of any material. Having no weight-carrying walls, the Wiener-Sert system uses only about 50% of the structural lumber and 80% of the metal permitted...