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...houses off a factory line like you turn out cars." But factory production of houses and room-sized components is an increasingly successful way to offset rising costs-in areas where unions and local laws allow such industrial methods to be used. U.S. Steel, Boise Cascade, National Homes, Guerdon Industries, Crane Co., Borg-Warner and many other firms have entered the field with ready-to-use rooms, baths or entire house sections...
...instant homes were the first of 200 being built in Chicago ghetto neighborhoods by National Homes and by Guerdon Industries. Equipped with factory-installed kitchen appliances, one-piece glass-fiber bathrooms and even air conditioning, they sell for only $14,500. In high-cost Chicago, similar-sized homes built by time-consuming conventional methods would ordinarily carry price tags of about $25,000. Thanks to such easy terms as $350 down and monthly mortgage payments of $125, National's module homes will reach families with incomes as low as $6,500 a year...
...experiment, FHA recently backed inexpensive houses built by half a dozen manufacturers of mobile homes. Guerdon Industries came up with a two-bedroom, one-bath model, 12 ft. wide and 46 ft. long, that sells for a mere $4,210 in Ashburn, Ga. To keep the price that low, the city relaxed its requirements for street paving and foundations and FHA waived a few of its ordinary minimum standards...
...awards given by the Sons of the American Revolution for Mil Sci 2 and Mil Sci 1 will be presented to Guerdon H. Nelson '45 of Lowell House and New Brunswick, New Jersey and William W. Dunn '46 of Winthrop House and New York respectively...
Other prizes to be presented today include: Harvard ROTC Pistol Team Medal to James G. Hays Jr., '42; Harvard 1945 ROTC Pistol Team Medal to Guerdon H. Nelson '45; pistol expert medals to James G. Hays, Jr. '42, Thomas M. Cook '42, John L. Barber '45; and the Curtis Prize to the pistol that defeated the rival Navy unit last March...