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...blow its own horn but in view of past matches and on glancing through the records of past years, the meet will probably be, in the jargon of the trade, a "push over". The score of last year's encounter, though at the time there were ominous murmurs of "gyp" and "we wuz robbed" arising from the Lampoon contingent, was carefully checked by a firm of Boston accountants and found to be 23-2 in favor of the official undergraduate organ. Dr. Worcester's office later issued an unofficial statement attributing the victory to clean living and a paucity...
About one-half of all U. S. gypsum plaster is sold by U. S. Gypsum Co., a $60,000,000 corporation founded in the trust-making heyday of 1901, and always called by its management "Gyp." Gyp also sells prefabricated plaster called Sheetrock. Gyp's leading non-gypsum item is metal lathing to put under its gypsum plaster, and Gyp sells about one-fourth of all metal lathing in the U. S. Hard hit by the building depression, Gyp's profits sank as low as $1.599,000 in 1932, were $2,155,000 last year...
...Head of Gyp for three decades has been a suave, nimble-witted gentleman who today is more famed as the president-chairman of another and noncompetitive corporation. Montgomery Ward & Co. Gyp's Sewell Lee Avery was picked to pull the floundering mail-order house from its red depths. He did. Last year Ward earned $9,302,000 (11 mo.) as against a deficit of $8,712,000 in 1931. But Mr. Avery continues as Gyp's president, a fact which lets him in for unmerciful attacks from disaffected Ward stockholders. Once they cartooned Montgomery Ward...
Last week it was as Gyp's president that Sewell Lee Avery presided over a stockholders' meeting. Forthright as ever, he briskly challenged a few of the country's most cherished economic notions. It was shortsighted, said he, to think that the U. S. must embark upon a vast building program to restore prosperity. There was far too much building in the last period of prosperity. Home and industrial construction would pick up when & if business activity created a genuine demand for new quarters. What was more, any building revival was unlikely until both material prices...
...effect that collective bargaining is all right if honest men are doing the bargaining, but crooked organized labor is a menace to the honest laborer. . . . This chap also said he used to know Farley when he was getting a small weekly salary selling gypsum (hence the name, Gyp Jim Farley.) Says Farley's great on organizing. Jim also is pretty good at picking the right man. All the professors late Jim, you know, because he hasn't the same ideas about career men they have. The professors want men who are good; Farley wants men who are Democrats...