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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...
Christmas Tree King in Chicago is a genial Greek named Gust Relias, who will sell this year about 50 carloads of trees. A produce dealer like Fred Vahlsing, his mainstay is tomatoes. If Gust Relias is lucky this year, as he usually is, he will clear $20,000 on Christmas trees before Dec. 25. At the Wabash Railroad concentration point at 27th Street & Ashland Avenue, he will appear daily to auction his trees by carload or by bundle to wholesale or retail buyers. His voice may be drowned out by that of his rival, Izzy Cloobeck, who can be heard...
...question arising in most people's minds when told of the great work done by these houses is: if they do such fine work, why is there a call for volunteers? Volunteer workers are needed for the simple reason that they are the mainstay of many of these houses. In each house there is a paid staff, but their number is inadequate to cope with the great number of people who belong to the house. The head-workers provide the organization; they require the services of volunteers to carry on the real work of the house...
Among those who have been down are Al Banlon, currently out with since trouble, Bill O'Conner, Dick Brayton, and Dick Dyer, and Dave Flower in the shot put, while another expected mainstay is the transfer George Klain, who is out for football; Sears in the hammer; Cook, Pottingell, and Mulliken in the pole vault...
...said: "Food is the first of all the weapons of preventive medicine and it must be the function of the agriculturists in the near future to grow complete foods and not mere market produce. Life is so complex that we have forgotten how entirely food is its foundation and mainstay. We must discover what chemical substances in food, if any, can give intelligence, courage and alertness to the inhabitants of a city. Can we feed to produce nervous strength and agility in the same way we have learned to eat vitamins to prevent scurvy, pellagra, rickets and other diseases...