Word: gypsum
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Badge of Shame. Jamaicans regard it as a badge of their island's industrial shame that cement must be imported from England. Rich in limestone and gypsum, Jamaica has no cement plant. Jamaica's governor, Sir John Huggins, turned for help to World Commerce Corp.'s Sir William Stephenson, who winters in Jamaica...
...last week indignantly reported the basis on which the Russian satellite nations were prepared to do business with Tito's country. For one tractor, Poland or Czechoslovakia asked 377 tons of bauxite; for one truck engine, 60,000 tons of maize; for one motorcycle, 180 tons of raw gypsum...
Marcks spends his mornings sculpting in gypsum, which he likes better than clay because "it is so ugly-its brutal white color shows up the weaknesses." In the afternoons he goes home to the two-room apartment he shares with his wife, and rests. In the evenings he does playfully bizarre woodcuts which sell very well, help to finance the casting of more & more of his hard-to-sell gypsum figures in bronze...
...banana-peeled into this place," Chairman Sewell L. Avery once told a Montgomery Ward stockholder, "and then couldn't get out." That was only half true. In 1931 Avery, then head of prosperous U.S. Gypsum Co., reluctantly agreed to become boss of the giant mail-order house after it had lost nearly $9,000,000 in a year. He made "Monkey Ward" so prosperous in the following years that he never tried...
...improved almost without exception; utilities and food packaging were not far behind. In most cases, profit margins were no higher than last year, but volume was up. Some typical nets: $23 million for Union Carbide & Carbon Corp. (up 20% over the first quarter of 1947); $1.5 million for National Gypsum (up 15%); $2.1 million for Wm. Wrigley...