Word: gypsum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bethlehem Steel 18,316,707 1,145,213 Westinghouse 11,331,772 4,500,602 Railroads Chesapeake & Ohio 15,462,607 5,523,568 Chicago, Burlington & Quincy 452,639 d 3,235,581 Building Materials Johns-Manville 2,881,334 d 24,897 U. S. Gypsum 3,401,253 2,181,219 Chemicals Du Pont 38,836,234 18,937,605 Union Carbide & Carbon .. 20,452,852 7,931,058 Automobiles General Motors 110,454,266 33,020,019 Chrysler 24,456,609 5,709,599 Packard 3,819,056 d 1,244, 965 Utilities Commonwealth & Southern...
...mortgages, increase working capital, redeem sinking fund bonds and pay for some new construction, National Gypsum Co. filed a registration statement for $3,500,000 in debentures...
...Gypsum...
...largest U. S. plaster maker and one of the largest concerns in the building industry is U. S. Gypsum Co. and last week in the annual meeting of Gypsum stockholders, Chairman Sewell L. Avery took occasion to crack back at Franklin Roosevelt. Reading TIME'S account of the President's lecture aloud to some 50 Gypsum stockholders assembled in Chicago, Chairman Avery declared that Franklin Roosevelt had been misleading in his comparison of 1938 with 1929. In 1929, said Mr. Avery, plaster prices were drastically low because of a savage price war. Today Gypsum's average prices...
...Easy credit will not be an inducement to build homes which when built will not be worth what they cost." According to Sewell Avery, building represents a wide cross section of all U. S. industry and therefore will not revive until business as a whole regains confidence. In Gypsum's case, January and February sales were 25% under last year and the company is therefore unlikely to equal the $5,400,000 it made in 1937. This made Chairman Avery very bitter. Turning lecturer in true Rooseveltian style, he too presented a price chart, but he held it upside...