Word: gypsum
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...office of the United Insurance Co. of America and a $10 million, 600-room addition to the Sheraton-Chicago Hotel. Now abuilding are another half-dozen handsome structures ranging from an eight-story headquarters for the American College of Surgeons to the 17-story headquarters of the United States Gypsum...
...Army and Air Force bases of New Mexico believe that the Tularosa Basin is ideal for a major spaceport. In its northern sector is a vast, bare alkali flat with 100 sq. mi. of almost perfectly level surface, made chiefly of gypsum (natural plaster of Paris), which is firm enough to support the world's heaviest aircraft. Most of the basin's few inhabitants are already connected with military space activities and are eager to see the region regain the importance that Canaveral took away from it. Even the small cities beyond the basin...
Short Fall, High Bounce. Many other companies also boosted dividends. Jersey Standard added a nickel, fattening the pocketbooks of its 665,000 owners by $11 million. Boeing, Brunswick and U.S. Gypsum also announced raises. In all, dividend payments by U.S. corporations are expected to grow from an annual rate of $14.3 billion in the third quarter to more than $15 billion in the fourth...
...rapidly with wire and metal rods, allows his construction to grow almost as if it had a goal of its own. If the construction does not please him, he can correct or discard; if it does, he fills it in like flesh over bones with a plaster made of gypsum and iron powder...
Industrial development agencies have found that one of the most valuable investments they can make is a complete survey of a depressed area's facilities and natural resources. A geological survey of the area around Freedom, Ind. turned up the presence of gypsum; it took little urging to persuade a gypsum mine and mill to locate in the area. More and more depressed communities are setting up training programs to re-educate workers for new jobs. Pennsylvania spends $500,000 a year retraining unemployed workers. Though it costs about $140 to train one worker over a course of several...