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...World War II's end, when gloomy Sewell Avery began predicting collapse, Baker set his sights on expansion, began adding more new products. Most recent: rock wool "blankets" for home insulation and a simple roll-on method of refinishing old walls with colored plaster. This year, after spending $41 million on new plants in the postwar years, Baker expects his sales to reach a record $90 million (almost half of U.S. Gypsum), although taxes will trim his net from 1950's $9,200,000 to about $6,600,000. Despite rearmament's curbs on building, he expects...
...After lumber, gypsum is the single most important U.S. building material. It is used for plaster, lath, walls, ceilings, insulation...
...river valleys to the southeast toward the town of Nghia Lo. At dawn French-manned B-26 bombers and Hellcat and Bearcat fighters were roaring off the airfields of Hanoi and Haiphong, a few minutes later were diving between the mist-shrouded peaks surrounding the Nghia Lo basin to plaster the Viet Minh troops with bombs and napalm. Over the town of Nghia Lo, C-47s and three-motored Junkers transports dropped French and Foreign Legion paratroopers, who quickly set up new defenses athwart the mountain passes. At week's end the severely mauled Viet Minh columns pulled back.The...
...Patch of New Plaster. Under Sylvie's management, the hotel prospered. Seven months pregnant though she was, the new proprietress worked hard at her job. Her clothes were sometimes smeared with plaster, and she would explain: "I'm plugging up some of those rat holes in the cellar." An anonymous letter brought Police Inspectors Leloup and Lelong to the hotel. "Ah," said Sylvie, "I have good news for you. Madame is returning on Saturday." The policemen nodded: "We will be here...
...Saturday, when Aunt Jeanne did not return, Inspectors Leloup and Lelong decided to search the hotel. In the cellar, behind a pile of lumber, topped with a birdcage, they found a patch of new plaster. A few blows of a pickax revealed the naked, decaying body of Mme. Perron, a gag still wadded in her mouth...