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Keohan said B&G will undertake a gypsum soil conditioning program on the Quad this spring in order to eliminate soil compaction and increase drainage...
...deviling construction in the East, partly because West Coast builders have been snapping up supplies. As a result, many projects are stalled, and cement prices are climbing. Some big West Coast suppliers are going as far as Japan and Korea for raw materials. California's big Kaiser Cement and Gypsum Co. plans to import 10% of the materials it needs from Japan this year...
...fast buck on the public's energy anxieties. Some wholesalers have hiked prices 20%, even though fiber glass manufacturers have not raised most quotes since last March. Arthur Milot, president of a Rhode Island lumber firm, says he was offered insulation in September by a salesman from National Gypsum, a distributor for Owens-Corning, for 20% above the prevailing price. He refused to buy, yet the incident convinced him that whatever profiteering is going on is occurring at "the middleman's level...
...Date. Then, on the day that the Senate convened in January 1961, Senator Clinton Anderson introduced his new blonde receptionist to Jackson. She was Helen Hardin, a divorcee, daughter of the president of American Gypsum Co. in Albuquerque and graduate of Scripps College and Columbia University, where she earned a master's degree in contemporary literature, specializing in Virginia Woolf. A date for tea in the Senate dining room led to bicycling dates and to marriage in December. Jackson was 49; his wife...
...have found that perhaps 400 billion tons of coal-almost two-thirds of the proven reserves in all of Europe-lie beneath the country's soil. Additional recent copper and nickel discoveries have been labeled "very promising" by representatives of U.S. Steel, and deposits of manganese, asbestos and gypsum have yet to be developed...