Word: modular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vast store of equipment accumulated in 2½ years of construction. Among the items for sale: 18,000 bulldozers, cranes and other pieces of heavy equipment; nearly 2,000 pickup trucks; 125 portable bridges; and from the 29 construction camps strung out along the line, 5,395 modular camp buildings fitted out as dormitories, kitchens, game rooms and offices and fully equipped right down to the telephones and Coke machines. Alyeska's most prized offering: 1,500 elaborately insulated outhouses built, at a cost of $ 10,000 each, to serve in comfort in -70° temperatures. TIME Correspondent John...
...even if undomed, the new Yankee Stadium has more character than those sterile, round, modular units that have sprung up across the sports landscape like mushrooms in a glen. It is basically the same looming, irregularly laid-out structure whose vast inner space Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle roamed heroically. Only it is clean, shiny and for the first time comfortable. The "Telescreen" on the scoreboard that was to flash messages like "Charge!" to the crowd was not working, and some box-seat spectators complained that their view of home plate was blocked by the dugout roof...
...convoy-the largest in peacetime maritime history-ten made it through to Prudhoe. Another 19 turned back for southern Alaska ports: they encountered the worst ice conditions in 77 years. One barge was beached and is being repaired. The 15 that turned back last week contained, among other items, modular buildings, without which oil production cannot begin...
...required that a two-dimensional surface be modulated to create the illusion of three dimensions. Among the solutions were toothpicks glued to pieces of paper, nails pounded into wooden bases at different heights, and holes punctured in tin. Another series of forms shown evolved from the problem of joining modular units together into a larger structure...
...sales of many builders of modular houses are effectively restricted to a 300-mile radius of their plants because of the prohibitively high rates of shipping modules, which range up to $1 a mile Also, community zoning and building codes round the country vary wildly, making genuine mass production for a nationwide market all but impossible. In an effort to overcome this problem, 26 states have agreed to uniform codes: yet to protect the highly paid jobs of craft union members, many codes are still fussy in demanding a certain gauge of wire for electric circuits a particular type...