Word: gypsum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gains were general in industries ranging from brewing, cosmetics and food processing to lumber, gypsum and aerospace. Standard Brands' earnings rose from $4.6 million to $5.1 million and Procter & Gamble's from $333 million to $35.1 million. In the long-sputtering transportation business, a 3% fare rise helped lift the profits of United...
...thick, lozenge-shaped glazed brick literally on thin air, forming arches between the steel ribs of the umbrellas just curved enough to hold up. One boy would build this ceramic webbing, a second boy stayed below and tossed wet bricks up, while a third constantly mixed the quick-setting gypsum mortar that held the flying Persian carpet of brick firmly in place. The holes between the bricks were chinked with more gypsum from below and with concrete poured over the top to form the weather surface...
...Celotex's troubles are largely the result of stodgy management -and Walter is anything but stodgy. With sales of skeleton shell houses (which the buyer finishes) slipping because of fierce price competition,Walter recently branched out into semifinished houses-which will provide a readymade market for Celotex insulation, gypsum board and roofing...
...office of the United Insurance Co. of America and a $10 million, 600-room addition to the Sheraton-Chicago Hotel. Now abuilding are another half-dozen handsome structures ranging from an eight-story headquarters for the American College of Surgeons to the 17-story headquarters of the United States Gypsum...
...Army and Air Force bases of New Mexico believe that the Tularosa Basin is ideal for a major spaceport. In its northern sector is a vast, bare alkali flat with 100 sq. mi. of almost perfectly level surface, made chiefly of gypsum (natural plaster of Paris), which is firm enough to support the world's heaviest aircraft. Most of the basin's few inhabitants are already connected with military space activities and are eager to see the region regain the importance that Canaveral took away from it. Even the small cities beyond the basin...