Word: gypsum
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...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...
...Ward earned $9,302,000 (11 mo.) as against a deficit of $8,712,000 in 1931. But Mr. Avery continues as Gyp's president, a fact which lets him in for unmerciful attacks from disaffected Ward stockholders. Once they cartooned Montgomery Ward as a cow. U. S. Gypsum as a pail and Mr. Avery, as he said at a boisterous Ward stockholders' meeting last year, "in the flattering position of doing something about which I know nothing...
...named because of the gypsum deposits in the vicinity of the Montmartre section of Paris...