Word: gypsum
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...another cache of engraved tablets (brass this time) in Walworth County, Wis. In 1869 diggers near Cardiff, N.Y. unearthed what was thought to be petrified proof positive of a vanished race of American supermen-until it developed that the 2,966-lb. "giant" had been carved (out of Iowa gypsum) by a joker in Chicago...
...Bricks, clay sewer pipe, structural tile, gypsum board, gypsum lath, cast-iron soil pipe and fittings, cast-iron radiation, bathtubs, lumber and millwork...
...that by next spring, when the building season starts for most of the U.S., both men and materials will be available on a scale ample to meet the rush. To make the gamble a good one, it has already had OPA put price increases on cast iron, soil pipe, gypsum lath and the clay industry, is now hinting broadly that, to get the labor to make these materials, wages will also have to be hiked...
...history to a man hardly known to the U.S. public. Son of a wealthy Michigan lumberman (six generations of Averys have been lumber men), Sewell Avery was born in Saginaw in 1874. After graduation from Michigan University Law School (1894), he started at the bottom in a small gypsum plant owned by his father. At 22 he was manager. In 1901 the company was absorbed by the U.S. Gypsum Co.; four years later, Sewell Avery was president of U.S. Gypsum. A suave and brilliant supersalesman, he built the company into an $81,000,000 concern, made...
...event, WLB's attempt to back out of its impasse was a clear signal that compliance with its directives is anything but mandatory. The powers at issue in the Gypsum case were those which WLB possessed before passage of the Smith-Connally Act and the subsequent Presidential order giving WLB enforcement powers. Since that order WLB has been on firmer legal ground. But last week one Government man in a position to know the score declared: ". . . As a practical proposition right now compliance has broken down. It's a case of what the hell can the Government...