Word: gypsum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...name of Baumhogger acquired a less unusual distinction. He became the third Montgomery Ward man to head a big building material company. The others are Ward's Chairman and President Sewell Lee A very, who is also President of U, S. Gypsum Co., and Johns-Manville's President Lewis H. Brown, who was once Ward's assistant general operating manager of all plants. Walter Gilbert Baumhogger resigned from Ward's last August "for no particular reason" after a successful six-year job as vice president in charge of retail stores. Last week he was elected president...
...Unlike its big neighbor, Montgomery Ward, it was shackled to no failing chain stores, but it was as badly off as Ward's in its ineffective merchandising methods. Spiegel's needed brains. For $100,000 a year, Ward's acquired this necessity from U. S. Gypsum Co. in the person of Sewell Lee Avery. Spiegel's found it in the family. Modie Joseph Spiegel Jr., ten years out of Dartmouth, had been making money in the apparel department when most other departments were falling fast. Big, jovial Board Chairman "M. J. Sr." gave...
...they were kept alive, but if the money ran out they were done away with by any of several traditional means-they were left in cold air alter a very hot bath, were fed heavily after being starved for days, or were nourished on a mixture of milk and gypsum which 'created a plaster coating on their digestive tracts. Lack of inquiry into the causes of infant mortality stimulated what Author Adamic calls a "horrid industry...
...Gypsum made $3,491,000 in 1935 against $2,155,000 in 1934. As the U. S. Steel of its industry-it supplies 50% of the gypsum wall board, 50% of the gypsum plaster and 25% of the metal lath used in U. S. buildings-U. S. Gypsum is a No. 1 beneficiary of the prospective 1936 building boom. Marketeers, aware of Gypsum's bright prospects, last week valued the common at $108, about 43 times earnings...
...great many of the latter. What Mrs. Walrath wanted of the five assembled men was $5,000 with which she could make the cash payment on a $15,500 house she had in mind as the nursery's headquarters. Then & there Mrs. Walrath's listeners-U. S. Gypsum's Sewell Lee Avery, Pure Oil's Henry Dawes (brother), Franklin MacVeagh's Rollin H. Keyes (since deceased), Carson Pirie Scott's Frederick Hossack Scott, Butler Bros.' Frank H. Cunningham-gave the necessary $1,000 each...