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Certainteed is the third largest U. S. manufacturer and distributor of gypsum products, chief of which are ordinary wall plaster and wallboard. Its name was derived in 1917 from a trade-mark for the asphalt roofing which was its original product and is still its mainstay. Its weakness was a result of boomtime expansion which culminated in the purchase of Beaver Products, makers of Beaver Board and "Bestwall," original gypsum wallboard, in 1928. To acquire Beaver Products the company had to issue $13,500,000 in bonds, thus simultaneously gearing up productive capacity and enormously in creasing its burden...
...collection of sheep horns, plaster relief maps, Indian blankets, rock specimens, framed photographs, stuffed animals, miners' picks and other objects assembled during the past 20 years, the Yosemite National Park Museum owes its present attractive two-story stone building to a $75,000 grant in 1924 from the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Foundation. Besides the necessary offices for park naturalists, guides and officials, sheep horns and blankets have filled most of the rest of the available space, yet by order of Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, the museum must now find room for these 198 paintings, most...
Rubenstein employed the "true fresco" technique for the murals, a method used by the great Italian masters of the Renaissance. In this style the painting is done directly on the damp, freshly plastered wall. Since the plaster remains damp only for about fourteen hours, the artist must work quickly and must plan his work carefully day by day. He must plaster only as large an area as he can complete in a single day's work. The pigment employed in the "true fresco" technique is mixed with slaked lime and water, while the retouching of the various seams made...
...head with a necklace of cinema film and zippers for eyes; a stuffed parrot on a hollow log containing a doll's leg; a teacup, plate and spoon covered entirely with fur; a picture painted on the back of a door from which dangled a dollar watch, a plaster crab and a huge board to which were tacked a mousetrap, a pair of baby shoes, a rubber sponge, clothespins, a stiff collar, pearl necklace, a child's umbrella, a braid of auburn hair and a number of hairpins twisted to form a human face. There were in addition...
...roulette wheel came up for Gambler Ballard: Alexander, 33, was said to be down on his luck, bitter against Ballard, whom he had unsuccessfully sued for $250,000 for breach of contract. Pat Piper, a Chicago bookmaker in the next room, was struck by a piece of plaster when a bullet crashed through the wall. When detectives broke down the door they found Ballard seated in a chair with a bullet through his heart, Alexander dying, a suicide...