Word: gypsum
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...plaster made of native gypsum and animal glue on which colors are applied...
Widow Anderson, who was doing all right long before the war, now has contracts for feeding workers at naval air bases, U.S. Gypsum, Phelps Dodge's huge new Morenci mine, Climax Molybdenum, etc. She has even operated entire industrial towns (movies, pool halls, filling stations, etc.), last year ran two camps in the Bahamas for Paramount, is now setting up a new camp at Mecca, on the Salton Sea, for the same company's new film, So Proudly We Hail. One of her many headaches: when Anderson bakers are sent from California's Imperial Valley...
...Gypsum and other suppliers of similar materials deliberated following suit...
...country's 8,500,000 stockholders, extra and special dividends came almost too fast to count. Items: Allied Chemical, $2; American-Hawaiian Steamship, $1.75; Loew's Inc., $1; J. C. Penney, $2; U. S. Gypsum, $1. The New York Journal of Commerce estimated that they would bring the year's total to $3,565,000,000, up 13% from 1939, 27% from...
...West he dis covered that U. S. dinosaurs sometimes weighed 40 tons, that cretaceous birds had teeth, that cretaceous seas contained sea serpents. He helped organize the U. S. Geological Survey (see p. 66), was a lifelong friend of British Evolutionist Thomas Huxley. He exposed the Cardiff Giant ("a gypsum man, ten and a half feet long, nude, virile and unabashed") as a fake. His biography by Clara LeVene and Professor Schuchert, one of the few co-workers whose respect and affection managed to transcend the great paleontologist's "autocratic tendency," reconstructs the life of Othniel Charles Marsh with...