Word: bilt
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Warning: The government has recalled nearly 10 million portable mesh playpens. Toddlers can strangle on pacifier strings or loose clothing that catches on the playpens' protruding rivets. Problem brands include Bilt-Rite, Playskool and Kolcraft...
...ardent environmentalist that Democrat Richard Lamm, 39. Minority whip in the state house of representatives, Lamm led the successful fight to keep the 1976 Winter Olympics out of Colorado, on the ground that they would affect thoustands of visitors who would threaten the environment. He sponsored a land-use bilt that lost by a single vote...
Nobody else has put together an empire quite like it. Through subsidiary Kingsberry Homes, Boise Cascade foresees selling 5,000 prefabricated houses this year. In joint ventures with Los Angeles Builder R. A. Watt and Perma-Bilt Enterprises, a San Francisco area housebuilder, another 2,500 dwellings will go up. And Divco-Wayne Corp., which last month agreed to merge with Boise Cascade, does a $100 million-a-year business as one of the world's foremost makers of mobile homes and travel trailers. "We've been trying to get from timber-our starting point-down...
Hurricane & High Water. A four-room prefabricated beach house designed to withstand hurricane and high water was shown by Pre-Bilt Construction Co. of North Dartmouth. Mass. It stands on V-shaped steel stilts, 9 ft. tall, which are bolted to a 41-yd. concrete block that acts as anchor. Price: $12,500 with finished interior, $7,900 without...
...Pleasantville, N.Y., the Easi-Bilt Patterns Co. puts out nine different blueprints for do-it-yourself home builders. Since the war it has sold 250,000 plans, estimates that 70,000 of its do-it-yourself customers have managed to build their own homes...