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...Steel, which has made pre- fabricated wooden houses (Gunnison) since 1944, now hopes to make a big dent in the U.S. housing market with steel models. At a big, new $5,500,000 plant near Harrisburg, Pa., Big Steel will soon turn out 4-ft.-wide steel panels with built-in insulation, and other parts that can be used to assemble complete houses, hospital buildings and schools...
...dirt or water as ballast, do the job of a bulldozer, power shovel, or air compressor capable of running 12 pneumatic jackhammers. Fairchild, which will deliver the first model to the Army next December, hopes eventually to cut the price to $25,000 in quantity production, make a big dent in the construction-equipment market...
...record: 2,158 ft. into the Dent de Crolles, a mountain in the western Alps, held by French Speleologist Pierre Chevalier since...
...week was the bloodiest and costliest in nine months; the Chinese grabbed and held half a dozen outpost positions. Though the Chinese had not even tried to make a dent in the main U.N. line, some of the outposts command higher ground, and menace the main line...
...chairman of the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Every chairman from Martin Dies on has been a white knight to part of the public, an inquisitorial fiend in the eyes of another part. By last week the new committee chairman, Illinois' Harold Himmel Velde, had managed to dent his halo and seemed firmly hitched to his forked tail. Velde's trouble: too much talk, too little caution, not enough political horse sense...