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...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...
With modernity as their keynote, decorators plastered the Faculty Room's ceiling and put modern wire lath in place of the old-fashioned wooden lath formerly used. At present the finishing touches are being added by the painters who are still busy on the exterior of University Hall...
...cartoon strip, a panorama of civilization in the U. S. as seen through Communist eyes from the landing of the Pilgrims and the liquidation of the Indians to NRA and the farm strike. The New Workers' tenure of the garret being none too permanent, the metal lath and plaster panels of each fresco, weighing up to 350 lb., were made removable...
Throughout his life Mr. Pennypacker was active in educational work. From 1889 to 1891 he assisted at Adelphi Academy in New York City. For the next twenty years he was identified with the Boston Lath School, the oldest secondary school in the United States. From 1891 to 1904 to 1910 as master, and from 1910 to 1920 as headmaster. Since 1920 Mr. Pennypacker has been chairman of the Committee on Admissions of Harvard College...
...debate with Boston Lath School on Friday, December 18 has been tentatively arranged and several others will be announced in the near future...