Concrete Materials Company grows from partnership to nation impacting producer
Bruce Fishwild reports Cedar Rapids based Concrete Materials and Construction Company, formed 17 years ago, has evolved into a corporation with 1950 contracts totaling about 15 million dollars and prospects for 1951. The firm leads in crushed aggregate, built flexible base roads, and operated nationally with plants in Iowa Kansas Missouri and beyond. The Cedar Rapids HQ handles payrolls and purchasing while production includes a large Downington Pennsylvania plant for New Jersey turnpike work. A traveling geologist and overseas projects mark its expanding footprint.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bruce Fishwild
HE Concrete Materials and Construction Company
Cedar Rapids
Pres. S. P. Moore
Moore
H. D. Bellamy
Bellamy
Waterloo
Des Moines
Otis
Cedar River
Wichita
Topeka
Kan
Moline
Winfield
Zendale
Ers
Maneto
Maryville
Iowa
Kansas
Missouri
Downington
Pennsylvania
Carbon
Texas
Whitney Dam
Camp Campbell
Concrete Materials and Construction Company
New New Jersey Turnpike
Monticello basement dig yields 11 ton boiler swap
Joe McAleer owner of a Shell station found an 11 ton steam boiler while a contractor dug a basement for Otto Smith's Monticello Auto Wreckers. Smith took the boiler as payment for work, while McAleer plans to repaint the building. Anamosa Cedar Rapids firm Hamel Transfer bought E. J. McKinstry Transfer Company. What Cheer sees M N Brown open a law office and general insurance agency in the former Roland agency building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sadie Roland
Brown
Strawberry Point
Florence Scheer
Iowa Telephone and Telegraph Company
William Hartke
Postville
Clinton Lammert
Chamberlain Real Estate
Lammert Real Estate
Hawkeye
William Prien
Parkston
S. D
Harold Schlegel
Mechanicsville
Reimer
Monticello
Joe McAleer
Shell Oil Station
Otto Smith
Laude
Smith
McAleer
Nash President Sees Big Future For Smaller Car
George W. Mason of Nash-Kelvinator predicts a big future for small cars as Americans seek lighter, cheaper autos with comfort and performance. Nash has already built 30,000 Rambler convertibles and wagons. future models and the NXI concept hinge on materials and defense mobilization. Mason remains convinced a smaller car will become a volume, low price contender.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
George W. Mason
Nash-Kelvinator Corporation
Nash Motors
Mason
Nash
Kaiser-Frazer
Peace Rumors and Trade Slump Plague Stocks
New York stock markets fell about 15 points in industrial averages as peace rumors from Korea and weak business conditions weighed on trading. The downturn followed declines in bond markets, rising inventories, slow retail sales, and tighter credit, with Ford and Pennsylvania Railroad among firms laying off workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
INS
Ford and
Pennsylvania Railroad
Palmer Named President of Morris Plan Co in Cedar Rapids
Harry A. Palmer, former general manager of Wilson and Company in Cedar Rapids, was elected president of the Morris Plan Company of Cedar Rapids at a board meeting succeeding the late Arthur Poe. Palmer previously held the vice president post, which remained vacant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry A. Palmer
Wilson and Company
Cedar Rapids
Morris Plan Company
Palmer
Arthur Poe
Poe
Frankfurt Opens New Stock Exchange Building
FRANKFURT Germany a new stock exchange has been completed and formally opened here replacing the original one destroyed during the war. The building covers about 5 000 square feet and houses bank offices with news tickers teletype machines and other modern conveniences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frankfurt
Germany
Stock Exchange
Wilson elected head of Honeymead Inc in Cedar Rapids notice
J Morgan Wilson president of Wilson Honeymead Company of Minneapolis is named president of Honeymead Inc replacing Osborn Andreas who becomes board chairman. The move places Wilson in charge of Iowa plants at Estherville and Tipton and Minnesota plant at Willmar. Honeymead Inc distributes feeds through dealers across Iowa Wisconsin Illinois Nebraska Minnesota and the Dakotas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Morgan Wilson
Wilson Honeymead Company
Minneapolis
Honeymead, Inc
Osborn Andreas
Andreas
Wilson
Cedar Rapids
Cor- Wilson Poration
Estherville
Tipton
Iowa
Willmar
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Illinois
Nebraska
Dakotas
Honeymead
Directns
Honeymead Products of
Mankato
Bank Clearings Rise in Cedar Rapids Week End May 19
Cedar Rapids bank clearings for the week ending May 19 reached 5,387,415.29, ahead of the prior year’s week total of 5,200,722.85. The week ending May 12 reported 4,975,363.39 in clearings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
New Rolling Mill Promises Lower Prices and Efficiency
Lawrence N. Eldred reports on a new mechanical principle in rolling mills that could cut processing times and costs in food and paper industries. The Sta comizer, by M. J. Stacom, enables continuous high pressures without heat or shear, with tests showing improved yields and broad potential uses from bark processing to oils extraction and flour milling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Armour Research Foundation
Illinois Institute of Technology
John D. Keane
Foundation
M. J. Stacom
Long Island City
N. Y
Keane
Anglo-Canadian Pulp and Paper Mills
Quebec City
Canada
Schamberger Buys Kadlec Building
William Schamberger announced he bought the Kadlec Motor Company property at 41 Sixteenth Avenue SW and will move Schamberger Motor Company there around July 1. The adjacent lot was leased from Hunter-Wathan Company for use by his business. Remodeling will precede occupancy. Schamberger is a Nash agency now at 1024 First Avenue NE. Kadlee operates as a Studebaker agency at Sixteenth Avenue and a new site at Third Avenue and Eighth Street SE.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Schamberger
Kadlec Motor Company
Sixteenth Lavenue
Schamberger Motor Company
Kadlec
iSchamberger
Hunter-Wathan Company
Sixteenth Avenue
Schamberger Company
Nash
First Avenue
Vlach Motor Company
Lincoln- Mercury
Kadlee
Studebaker
Third Avenue
Eighth Street
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Concrete Materials Company
Wy Li
Rial
Original Partners
Earlham
LaGrand
Marshalltown
Ottumwa
South America
Venezuela
F. E. Bellamy
K. K. Kinsey
Crandic
Eastern
Iowa Business News
Leslie Gould
Russia
Pearl Harbor
United States
Harry Palmer
New Stock Exchange
Comtes Elec
Burrell
Collins Radio Ee
Iocesses
Ruis Eaees Oseesw
Wey & Army Chemical New
DM &S
Inter-Ocean Sec. Corp
Inter-Ocean Sec Corp
Elec
Towa Elec. Co
Fidelity Fund Inc
Gas Industries
Seeennee
Keystone Stodn Bleeeenee
Keystone
W.tslands
Second Street NE
Caeey
Kosek
Lawrence N. Eldred
J. A. Livingston
Tell Aunamin Ok
Gandhia: Investment Compa
American Building
Dial
National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc
Schamberger
Kadlec Building
Remington
Smith- Corona
Underwood
Kresge
America
Central Repobite Company
Merchants National Bank
Lynn G. Swaney
Wayne E. Harger
C. Harlan Briggs
Tel
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