Word: beech
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unlike other prefabricated houses, the Fuller unit can be made with mass production materials and techniques, notably those of the aircraft industry. Beech Aircraft Corp., the only licensee so far, is now tooling up for production. It expects to be making 200 houses a day by next January. Bucky Fuller, whose company is only a sales organization, plans to license other planemakers, hopes eventually to roll houses off production lines at the rate of 185,000 a year. Washington housing officials have said that the house, turned out in idle plants, is probably the best answer yet to the housing...
...Yeast from beech wood: 100 tons of wood yields seven tons of yeast and 50 tons of cellulose...
...circular shell supported by a central stainless-steel shaft, instead of a conventional foundation. Newly formed Fuller Houses, Inc. (former name: Dymaxion Dwelling Machines, Inc.) hopes to license upwards of 70 manufacturers to produce 185,000 units a year. But the only licensee to date is Wichita's Beech Aircraft Corp. It has produced only two test models, and price and final design are not yet fixed. Beech expects to be in production this spring...
...Along the lanes and highroads, past the bare beech forests and the smooth slopes of the Downs, came the farmers of Sussex. Afoot and in wagons, they converged on Chichester Cathedral, whose distant spire was a grey needle against the sea. They filed into the famed early Norman church, packed it to the doors, and waited self-consciously. For the first time in 300 years, the British festival of Plough Monday was being celebrated...
...Wrigley's chewing gum except "Orbit" (made from grade-B chicle), and 75% of Beech-Nut production is going to the armed forces...