Word: custom-built
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...biggest building of all, it was surmounted by a gilded Byzantine tower topped by a giant red star. Russian music boomed through the hall as the East Germans gaped at the huge display: freight cars, trucks, tractors, radios, precision instruments. One teen-ager caressed the leather seat of a custom-built convertible sedan, murmured ecstatically, "Wunderbar!" A man with a red armband came up behind him. "Keep moving," he snapped, "everybody must have a look...
...phonograph be high fidelity and it is here that most standard phonographs suffer. An amplifier that goes up to 15,000 cycles is useless when the needle cannot pick up anything over 6000. Good amplifiers are often found hooked up to poor speakers or changers. The versatility of custom-built arrangements does away with this problem...
...growth of custom-built sets has been great during the past year and promises to increase. The effect of this is slowly being felt by the makers of standard "quality" phonographs. The coming battle will force them to improve their products to aid the record listener, as the record battle has brought new quality possibilities to record making...
...half the new houses constructed were custom-built, and the new owner consequently had a 50-50 chance to express his own ideas about the practical art of housing himself and his family. Today, such speculative merchant-builders as the David D. Bohannon Organization, which is putting up thousands of moderately priced houses around San Francisco, and the traditional but gadgety Gerholz Community Homes in Flint, Mich, account for 80% of production. Biggest of these merchants, Levitt & Sons, has raised a whole town (Levittown, pop. 27,850) of almost identical $7,990 bungalows on the flat potato fields of Long...
...Traditional" houses, built in any one of a dozen old-fashioned styles, were still away out in front. Driving along any street of new, custom-built homes in Los Angeles, the pondering home-builder could see U-shaped ranch houses, French provincials, New England colonials, Pennsylvania Dutch farmhouses and scaled-down copies of Mount Vernon, set in neighborly alignment on 90-or 100-ft lots...