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...assembled quickly, sometimes in a matter of days. While most of the new-age houses in a box have yet to be mass-produced, an expected rise in interest rates and a public hungry to meld good design with low cost will make them an attractive alternative, says Charles Bevier, editor of Building Systems magazine, a trade publication. The Freedonia Group, an industrial market-research firm, expects the size of the prefabricated-housing market, which includes panelized, manufactured, modular and precut, to rise to roughly $11.8 billion by 2007, up from $9.5 billion in 2003. (And, yes, that includes trailers...
...refinance mortgages. ¶Adopted a resolution by Alabama's Black appropriating $25,000 to investigate air and ocean mail contracts. ¶ Received a report from its Military Affairs Committee on the purchase of 200,000 kits at $1.40 each for the Civilian Conservation Corps after supersalesman Richard B. Bevier had visited Roosevelt Secretary Louis McHenry Howe. Said the report: "We find no evidence that would sustain a charge of corruption or improper motive. However we find that lower prices could have been obtained for articles of a quality sufficient to meet all requirements...
...Senate committee was told that on May 15 Richard B. Bevier had come to Mr. Howe with an introductory letter from Basil O'Connor, the President's one-time law partner. After inspecting Mr. Bevier's toilet kits (comb, toothbrush, soap, toothpaste, toothbrush holder, brush. soap box, mirror, shaving cream, razor, razor blades), Secretary Howe asked Budget Director Douglas to come over and have a look at them. Director Douglas was busy, sent a subordinate named Lowery. Instructing Lowery to investigate the cost and quality of the product as compared with the kits the Army was already...
Director Fechner proved a confusing witness. Clearly the telephone call from the White House had sounded like "orders" to him. He was now ready to take all the blame. He had signed the contract with persuasive Mr. Bevier May 15. No, he had not asked for competitive bids. No, he had not investigated the product-not until two weeks later. It was also brought out that although Mr. Bevier had quoted the kits at $1.10 each, by the time he had finished selling Mr. Fechner they had somehow jumped to $1.40 each, the increase being apparently occasioned by Mr. Bevier...
Subpenaed by telegraph, Salesman Bevier hotly disagreed. The C. C. C., he said, "wanted a fine quality of toilet article." Before the whirlwind finish of his Washington sales campaign he had spent a fruitless fortnight interviewing captains and colonels in the War Department. It then occurred to him, he said, that a President's Secretary would know "exactly what officials to get in contact with." He saw Mr. Howe at 3:30 the afternoon of May 15. Mr. Howe's letter did not reach Director Fechner until next day, but "before sundown" the contract, under which...