Word: nationale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lounging in his $120,000 home one Sunday last spring, a tough-faced, balding Indiana builder named James Robert Price decided to get ready for the building boom of the 19603 in the fastest way possible. Though he is the boss of National Homes Corp., the world's biggest...
This week National announced that Jim Price had got his plants-nine of them in as many states-through a merger with seven other U.S. home suppliers. Seven of the nine plants are in areas where National formerly sold no houses; they put National's network of twelve factories...
600 Variations. The key to National's success is Price's head-on approach to both his problems and those of the U.S. homeowner. A creative, hard-driving businessman, Price has transformed the prefab from a poor cousin into a respectable member of the housing family. To rid...
Aluminum House. Price's most radical house to date is made of aluminum. Though he introduced it only seven months ago, the house, which has only a few parts made of wood or Masonite, accounts for 30% of all National's sales, and Price expects it to hit...
With polio epidemics raging in Des Moines and Kansas City, and scores of needy patients requiring costly, round-the-clock hospital care, the funds allotted to local chapters by the National Foundation from the March of Dimes were fast running out. So the foundation asked local authorities for permission to...