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...Magazine of BUILDING. It is based on a brass-tacks, technical round table* held under the sponsorship of that magazine. The report has already received unanimous endorsement from the heads of every important U.S. building association, including architects, home builders, mortgage bankers, savings and loan leagues, producers and retail lumber dealers. Said the round table: "Without the pressure of some national emergency, the home-buying public might well have to go on year after year paying billions of dollars extra as the price of these wastes . . . [Now] we hope obvious reforms which might otherwise be delayed a half century...
...expansion attic ("You have the joy of finishing the second floor yourself"). The master bedroom was a barnlike 10 ft. by 11½. Each front door was flanked by the advertised "shrubbery"-two arborvitae bushes. All the floors were linoleum-covered, all the walls were plywood, and all the lumber was green...
Built in 1744, Holden was used successively as a lecture hall, barracks for the Continental arm, College lumber room, and fire engine house. Later it served the Medical School as a lecture hall and an anatomical museum...
...Northwest, lumber prices had plummeted in one of the steepest drops in the industry's history. Some grades had dropped 50%. Sales of television sets (hit also by the color controversy), radios, washers and other big appliances were also on the skids. Said one Atlanta retailer: "Business is off 50% in television sets and almost as much in refrigerators and stoves...
After a month of studies each trainee takes a four-week job, selected to acquaint her with unskilled work in some commercial observation. These jobs have included scrubbing floors in a hospital, lugging lumber about in a door factory in Pittsburgh, putting heels on rubber boots, and packing candy at Brigham...