Word: gunnison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...latest stout-heart to brave the business bogey of prefabricated housing is U.S. Steel Corp.'s dynamic, hardheaded president, Ben Fairless. Big Steel, which has never had any direct contact with the ultimate consumer, last week announced the purchase of a controlling interest in the Gunnison Housing Corp. of New Albany...
With this purchase went: 1) new conveyor-belted production methods which can produce a ready-to-assemble house in 25 minutes and will soon cut that time to 15 minutes; 2) a national dealer's organization; 3) the services of Gunnison Corp.'s kinetic, genial founder-president, Foster Gunnison, 47. A onetime illuminating engineer who lighted Manhattan's Rockefeller Center and Empire State building, Gunnison got into prefabricated housing with the financial backing of a fellow alumnus of St. Lawrence University, Owen D. Young...
...Market. The Fairless-Gunnison team anticipates big postwar sales. The Twentieth Century Fund estimates that the U.S. will need an annual 1,236,000 new homes for ten years after the war. Abroad, enthusiasts declare that prefabrication will be the only answer to the vast problem of replacing war-shattered homes. Winston Churchill has said that Britain will need a half-million prefabricated homes immediately on war's end. At present, the entire U.S. productive capacity is only 30,000 houses a year...
...Colorado, two inspectors dressed as fishermen visited Gunnison, checked up on the automobiles at trout streams, made the mistake of leaving their own car unguarded while they ate in a Gunnison restaurant. They departed with 1) severe intestinal disturbances presumably caused by doped food, 2) an automobile damaged ($200 worth) by sugar dropped in the gas tank...
Manila communicates with California directly by R.C.A. and A.T. & T. radiotelephone (a point-to-point system employing short waves outside the broadcast band). On deck in Manila for CBS were Tom Worthin and Ford Wilkins, for NBC local radioman Bert Silen, for Mutual Royal Arch Gunnison of North America Newspaper Alliance. Burly Bert Silen had assured NBC in Manhattan that he could "broadcast any time, even during actual bombing...