Word: build
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Taxiing Home. Smaller cities, bypassed by the transcontinental jets, see the airpark as a way to attract new light industry. La Crosse, Wis., is building a hundred-acre park next to its municipal airport, and Manchester, N.H., and Lincoln, R.I., both have set up nonprofit trusts to lease sites in their new airparks. Last week Atlanta Industrial Designer H. McKinley Conway Jr., who has planned several airparks, flew to Meridian, Miss., to confer with town officials who want to build one there. There is, of course, still the problem of commuting between home and work-but the Sierra Sky Park...
...hunting is getting better, though Eastern Europe still buys scarcely 4% of Western Europe's exports. Recently Austria's VÖEST sold an entire steel plant to Czechoslovakia. France's Renault signed up to build an auto assembly plant for the East Germans; in Poland, the British Motor Corp. is fighting Italy's Fiat for the contract to build an auto factory. Last week ouside Ploesti in Rumania, Illinois' Universal Oil Products prepared to break ground for a $22.5 million cracking plant-one of the biggest U.S. construction jobs ever undertaken behind the Iron...
...France as in most of Europe, cranes and precast concrete wall sections enable increasing numbers of tall apartment buildings to be built swiftly. But single homes have resisted the industrial techniques that are commonplace in the U.S. Contractors get in one another's way, run out of materials, even quit to work on a second project before they finish the first one. Workmen, though skilled, handcraft things the way their grandfathers did. The result: low output at high cost. Levitt, who will use 99% French-made materials and equipment, is gambling that he can teach his French contractors...
...more housing that even Levitt's French competitors cheer his venture-the first such in Europe by a U.S. builder. "He's helping to fill the need," says Builder Jacques Boulais, "and he's giving French contractors a good lesson in the modern way to build a house." Levitt has already lined up land for a second project near Paris next year. After that he plans to spread out to Marseille, other French cities and northern Italy. In ten years, he predicts, his company will be producing as much housing abroad...
...theme of tit-for-tat destruction, a comedy cliche raised to classic stature by Laurel and Hardy, is the starting point for an excerpt from their pie-in-the-face epic Battle of the Century. Whether dangling from the girders of an unfinished skyscraper, flattening a bungalow as they build it, or luring a horse onto a grand piano, they are pluperfect clowns...