Word: gypsum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jewel Tea. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 1,258,052 $ 838,947 U. S. Gypsum. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,375,747 8,414,116 Royal Typewriter. . . . . . . . . . . 1,117,648 1,019,692 Underwood Typewriter. . . . . . .2,104,877 2,700,754 Certainteed Products. . . . . . . 2,334,828 2,100,998 Gillette Razor. . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,311,000 1 12,089,000 Allis-Chalmers (machinery). . . .3,596,891 3,417,368 Republic Iron. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,065,022 3,813,484 U. S. Tobacco...
That in 1890 only 200,000 tons of gypsum were mined, but that last year the demand required 5,118,870 tons...
...That gypsum is used for the base coat for plaster, because it is adhesive, strong, and resistant to abuse; for tile in building partitions which need not bear weights, because it resists fire and water; for plasterboard or wallboard (pre-shaped at the mills) because it resists fire, does not warp and witstands abuse and cold and insulates against temperature changes...
...Gypsum-seller Shearer can tell these facts with authority having entered the industry in 1893. He shared in the origin of the U. S. Gypsum Co., perhaps the greatest concern of the industry. He was with the American Cement Plaster Co. for ten years. Then in 1923 he created the Universal Gypsum...
Last week this merger was a fact-the Universal Gypsum & Lime Co., capitalized for $10,000,000. Soon True, Webber & Co. of Chicago, and Porter & Co. of Boston will offer $2,000,000 of first mortgage 6% bonds against the new corporation's properties...