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...Luminous Sacred Hearts that glow in the dark. "So comforting for the sick." says the manufacturer's circular. "Hot traffic builder-always in demand...
...week. He heatedly denied that his trip had revealed "serious differences" between him and the Chinese Communists, conceding only that "India's basic approach is somewhat different" from Red China's. At a farewell banquet, Nehru grandiloquently hailed Mao Tse-tung as "Great warrior! Great revolutionary! Great builder and consolidator!", pausing only to add: "May he now be a great peacemaker also...
...obviously, the FHA scandals have become part of nightclub repertories, Red Smith's column and American folk lore generally. (The tabloids had fun with the story of Ian Woodner, a Washington builder who charged to FHA projects $87,000 for detectives-partly to check up on his ex-wife.) Until last week, however, nobody knew much about the central character: Clyde L. (for Lilbon) Powell, 58, who joined FHA under the Democrats in 1934 and was forced out last spring. From 1946 to 1950, as assistant commissioner, he authorized projects that netted some $500 million in unwarranted windfall profits...
...Lafayette last week, 43-year-old Mass Builder Price announced that he has hardly begun to build. In the next six months, National plans to increase its capacity at Lafayette and build a new plant in Dallas to tap the fast-growing Southwest market. The new program will boost National's production from 120 houses a day to 275. Next year's production goal: 30,000, or about one in every 25 nonfarm houses built...
...sold, thus keeps inventories of finished units down to zero. Another secret is his fleet of 255 huge trailers to deliver houses to building sites within 400 miles of his plant, thus licking the transportation costs that ruined many other prefabbers. Price sells his houses through some 550 builder-dealers around the country, some of whom gross upwards of $500,000 a year. Biggest cluster of National homes: a development of 2,000 units at Fort Wayne...