Word: masons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Autos continued to sell well (see Autos). Housing starts in March showed up better than expected. Said U.S. Housing Administrator Norman Mason: "This indicates that the upturn in housing has begun. Despite the severe weather which made March one of the worst building months in a long time, home building has increased to a normal rate." The estimate is still for 1,115,000 starts in 1960-by no means a record, but not bad. Department store sales for the second week in April set an Easter season record. They rose 18% over the same week...
...masterpiece emerges from the laboratory looking strangely changed, someone objects. But the museums can do as they like, and most of them favor restoration that includes stringent cleaning. Artists, on the whole, oppose it. Art News recently called for a moratorium on it. And last week Manhattan Painter Frank Mason was rounding up artists' signatures for a petition demanding a moratorium on all art restoration work at the Metropolitan Museum. Says Mason bitterly: "The least safe place for your paintings is a museum; they will be skinned alive...
...that February housing starts, which normally rise over January, fell 8% to a rate of 1,115,000 units on a seasonally adjusted basis. Even worse than the hard facts was the uncertainty about where the industry was going. Some housing experts, such as Federal Housing Administrator Norman P. Mason, still expect a 1.2 million year, which would make a good if not a record year. Others are less optimistic about prospects, predict declines of 15% or more from last year's 1.3 million starts...
Despite the home builders' gloom, a traditional spring surge in construction could quickly change the outlook. Says Housing Administrator Mason: "The money situation has definitely improved, and I expect a fairly rapid upswing two or three months from now in home building. It takes some time before builders find that money is more available and then translate that finding into new building plans and actual operation." As proof that many builders are bracing for the possibility of a spring upsurge, the Federal Housing Administration reported that applications for mortgage insurance on new loans rose 30% in February...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 8-9:30 p.m.). Directed by Broadway's Sidney (Caligula) Lumet, James Mason, Trevor Howard and Richard Basehart star in an adaptation of Robert Shaw's new novel, The Hiding Place, (TIME, Feb. 22). The plot: R.A.F. flyers are prisoners of a crazed German...