Word: lath
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...sniffing for the scent of a grey market in building materials. All over the country, Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy, vice chairman of the pack, had picked up signs of one Isadore Ginsberg of New York City, who was plying a brisk and highly profitable trade in gypsum lath. McCarthy was outraged at Ginsberg's prices. (He was getting $52.50 per 1,000 sq. ft. for lath selling for about $40 in lumber yards.) Furthermore, McCarthy charged, Ginsberg moved fast enough to buy up large quantities of lath, presumably kept it out of normal channels...
...long years of war, news from embattled China funneled through the tumbledown, mud-&-lath buildings of the Chungking Press Hostel. Last week, the last of the foreign-press corps followed the Central Government to Nanking. The bamboo-fenced compound looked as dreary and forsaken as an empty schoolyard-which...
...Bricks, clay sewer pipe, structural tile, gypsum board, gypsum lath, cast-iron soil pipe and fittings, cast-iron radiation, bathtubs, lumber and millwork...
...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...
...fact that the Owl Drug Store in Phoenix now stands where the Central Methodist Church used to. But both Londoner and cattleman should enjoy Neil E. Cook's recollections of embracing a girl in a steel-stayed corset: "like putting your arm around a bunch of lath...