Word: built
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME taken in by the Garner build-up when it reported (March 20, p. 13) that "he has recently built with his own money 25 houses for about $2,000 each in Uvalde, the like of which cost FHA one-third more"? I understand that FHA does not build houses, merely insures mortgages on them. ... All of which is no reflection on the Sage of Uvalde...
...Although "FHA houses" has come to be a legitimate, if loose, expression, Reader Walkeen is correct: FHA does not build houses, simply insures mortgages on houses built to its speciftions. Garner partisans say his houses are cheaper, FHA partisans say FHA houses are much better built. Mr. Garner, as is his custom, says nothing...
...problem the project has not yet found all the answers. But it has turned up a mass of "byproduct" information about listener habits, types, preferences. So interesting were some of these by-product findings that The Journal of Applied Psychology delayed publication of its February issue until last month, built an all-radio issue around them...
...portfolio of 50 houses actually built for $1,000-$2,000 families, with an accompanying study of cost factors, shows that such houses must not cost much more than $3,300. Under present conditions this usually means either 1) a two-story box with six rooms or a one-story bungalow with five; 2) a lot not over 40 ft. wide; 3) quantity building on more or less identical plan. The challenge to architects: to face this fundamental problem in design, which now in many cases goes by default to builders without benefit of architect, with frequently characterless results...
...Bishop National Bank of Honolulu consulted him about becoming its president, and George Rea thought that would be fine. In seven years he built Bishop's assets from 30 to 50 millions, enjoyed himself no end with golf, surfriding and singing in a barber-shop quartet. He resigned last December, took his wife on a long vacation in the Orient and the Philippines. Last week he landed in San Francisco, received a telephone call from one of the Curb Exchange's Silent Five, rushed to Manhattan and landed...