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...improve the design of single-family, low-cost houses, The Magazine of BUILDING got together four months ago with the National Association of Home Builders and six other sponsors. They put up $43,000 in prizes for the best house designs in the $8,000 to $11,000 class (including lot), plus an additional $24,000 for the best use of glass and plywood, and the most efficient kitchen. After sifting through 2,730 house plans, a five-man jury this week announced the winners...
...Low Costs. One postwar practitioner, a certain "Johnson," wanted for manslaughter in Oregon, evolved the idea of solving the housing shortage in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, by putting up standardized low-cost houses. Writing personal checks, he acquired land and materials for a pilot project, then tied up the funds completely; by the time the checks bounced, the men who had endorsed them found themselves forced into the building trade as Johnson's partners. In all, the mass-housing group succeeded in erecting one house...
...parental rules, the council appointed a three-man group to work with Faculty Committee on Houses in an effort to solve the problem of providing low-cost entertainment for students and their dates after 8 p.m. on weekends...
Married graduate students and veterans who apply now will find it impossible to acquire low-cost University-controlled apartments in Cambridge this fall. On the other hand, there are, at this date, over 500 furnished single and double rooms available which do not come under University jurisdiction...
...family units for veterans, the three University cooperative houses, and the Harvard Housing Trust all comparatively low-cost projects, are now full, with waiting lists going back as far as one year...