Word: lesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prefabricated housing was still haunting RFC last week. Despite its disastrous experience with Lustron, where it poured a cool $37 million down a rathole (TIME, Sept. 12), RFC had lent about $2,400,000 to Reliance Homes of Lester, Pa. The money was' to be used to finance mass production of a low-cost, ribbed-aluminum, factory-built house. The three-bedroom house "package" came in seven sections, could be assembled on the site by a crane and five workmen (see cut) in 1½ hours. But Reliance found that the house, boxlike though it was, cost around...
Crusaders' highly advertised star, slim, 6-ft.-1-in. Bob Cousy, was ill with grippe caused no visible slackening in pace. The platoons of 40-year-old Coach Lester Sheary carried...
Item: India's Jawaharlal Nehru carried the ball for full & friendly recognition of Communist China. Canada's Lester Pearson was for going slow...
...Debate Council yesterday elected the following men as officers for the year 1950: President, William C. Becker '51; Vice-President, A. Werner Pleus '51; Treasurer, Norman M. Hinerfeld '51; Home Secretary, Bruce Lane '52; Recording Secretary, Lester L. Ward '52; Publicity Director, Julian I. Edison '51; Director of Comps, John G. Morey...
...rescued. Of the ward's 68 patients, 39 women patients and Nurse Neal were dead. After the injured were tended and the funeral services arranged, the investigators would come, asking a pertinent question: why had the 60-year-old hospital building not been made fireproof? Fire Chief Lester Schick said that almost a year before he had urged the installation of a sprinkler system, but nothing was done about it. At Christmas, for the first time in years, hospital authorities had decided against having a lighted Christmas tree in the corridor of the mental ward. Reason: they feared...