Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Prices continue to rise partly because the supply of houses and apartments is not adequate. The U.S. has long taken pride in being the best-housed nation in the world, but today-despite its riches and technological power-it has slipped behind the pace of almost every big country in Western Europe in construction per capita (see chart following page). Even the U.S.S.R. puts up more housing than the U.S., though the Soviets' prefabricated apartments are so cramped and shoddy that most would be unrentable to middle-class Americans. George Romney, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, calculates...
...materials and methods. U.S. communities operate under at least 8,300 different building codes; the provisions often conflict, making it impossible to standardize such items as the type of wiring, piping and plumbing. This not only inhibits architects and engineers from developing cost-cutting innovations (for lack of a big enough market), but often prevents builders from reaping the economies of standardized plans and production. Few other big industrial countries permit such a senseless riot of diversity. Code uniformity has helped Western Europe to pass the U.S. in making use of new technology, including precast concrete panels and high-precision...
...improve the technology of subsidized housing for low-income and moderate-income families. Though his program goes by the corny name of "Operation Breakthrough," it is nonetheless quite promising. Under it, 650 companies have submitted proposals for mass-producing houses or component parts. Many of the entries come from big firms that have hitherto been little involved in housing, including Republic Steel, General Electric and Union Carbide. Next month ten or 20 of the Breakthrough proposals will be selected by the Housing and Urban Development Department to share $15 million in research grants. Prototypes will be built on eight sites...
...carpenter who kept his office in his hat, drew plans on an old paper bag, clung to stick-by-stick construction techniques, operated with shoestring financing. Now dozens of major U.S. manufacturers and other large enterprises are moving into housing and land development with bulging bankrolls, big teams of experts and grand plans...
...young white businessmen who had gathered together to back a Negro clothes designer and a Harlem dress store in a new line of maternity clothes called 'Mother Jumpers'?" Unconscionable. Could Barnett win Rosalie's attention by mastering "overcope," the technique of avoiding the frustrations of the big city by combining gall and guile? Indubitably...