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Goodyear has been operating a pilot assembly plant in Litchfield Park, Ariz, for a year, believes that 48,900 houses a year can be mass-produced at a cost of under $2,500 apiece, plus delivery charges. Like some 'other prefabricators, notably Bucky Fuller, Goodyear Board Chairman Paul W. Litchfield thinks that surplus war plants could be used to turn out his houses. But Wingfoot has made few houses to date, for the same reason that has delayed all building: lack of materials...
...Richard Fuller Patterson...
Gone: the Cheap House. The long-term prospects for U.S. housing are even foggier. The sheer cost of housing presents one almost insoluble problem. Despite prefabricators and designers like Buckminster Fuller (TIME, Feb. 11) who hope to produce houses in factories, no one has yet discovered a way to build a satisfactory house at a price everyone can afford...
...extravagance, in architecture. His latest proof, announced this month, is a tower laboratory for Johnson's Wax in Racine, Wis. Its 15-story lab is practically all window; all its heating, plumbing and servicing is done through a central mast, from which it is suspended, much like Buckminster Fuller's circular aluminum house (TIME, March 25). It will adjoin the office building Wright designed in 1938, which is held up by columns built like morning-glories. He also built a low-slung modern house for President Herbert F. Johnson Jr., who apparently believes that Wright...
...hybrid of favorite Fuller words "dynamic" and "maximize," now abandoned as too forbidding...