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While other builders pondered their problems in Chicago, Hugh Kern in Bakersfield, Calif, had some solutions. His Mobilhome Corp. was rolling houses off an open-air assembly line at the rate of one a day. He had no trouble finding buyers...
...Kern's houses, ranging from four rooms ($4,700) to six ($8,550) take ten days to build. They move on rollers out of a shed and along an assembly line. When completed, they are loaded onto a house mover's dolly and hauled to the building site (within a ten-mile radius). There the house is worked onto a concrete block foundation. The final plumbing and electrical connections can be made the same...
...Things, What Is This Thing Called Love?, Night and Day and I Get a Kick Out of You) ranked last year among the 35 all-time U.S. popular favorites. (The record is matched only by Irving Berlin, and was not equaled by such Tin Pan Alley titans as Jerome Kern, George Gershwin and Richard Rodgers...
...year-old Indian medicine man. The bag contains a beaver tail, snapdragon seeds, some eagle down, a fossil fish vertebra, various kinds of pebbles, minerals and other dependable rainmakers. According to a report in the New York Times last week, Dr. Fenenga recently used his bag on Kern County, where there had been no rain for eight months...
Sure enough, the heavens opened; the rain beat down upon Kern County. Dr. Fenenga then took his bag to Berkeley and found the great cyclotron buildings drenched with welcome rain. With a solemn face, he presented the rainmaking bag, beaver tail, eagle down & all, to the University of California...