Word: precut
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Solomon's Reign. In Paterson, N.J. suing for divorce, Mrs. Bessie Sigel complained that her husband Solomon 1) demanded that his meals be served course by course while he lounged on the living-roon sofa, 2) always checked to see that his food had been precut in bite-size chunks 3) dumped his plate on the floor if her cooking displeased...
...secret of Nelson's low price is that he applied the techniques of mass production (i.e., a standard design and precut parts) to his houses plus a liberal use of the new "do it yourself" idea (TIME, June 30 et seq.). His men grade the site and lay a concrete slab foundation, which is left to dry for a week. Then a truck dumps off floor beams, wall sections and other parts of a house. In 27 minutes two men bolt the frames together, throw up the walls and hoist the roof in place. Insulating material, then three coats...
...first of some 250,000 sailors and would-be sailors were "piped aboard." Biggest news at the show this year are mass-produced, prefabricated "kit-boats," which an amateur boatbuilder can put to gether for as little as 50% of the cost of buying a finished boat. Completely precut, right down to drilled holes and fitted joints, the kit-boats range in size from an 8-ft. pram by Roberts Industries ($35) and an 18-ft. outboard cruiser by Manhattan's U-Mak-It ($528 without motor) to a 31-ft. Chris-Craft cabin cruiser ($1,995). Chris-Craft...
...house is structurally overdesigned (i.e., wastes lumber). ¶ Standard, prefabricated plumbing assemblies could save millions of pounds of pipe and millions of man-hours now wasted piecing together special assemblies. ¶ Ceiling heights and sill heights could be further standardized so that lumber and wallboard producers could supply materials precut to fit. ¶ Millions of pounds of copper wiring, steel pipe and cement are wasted by excessive street widths imposed on most low-cost developments...
Shortage into Plenty. Levitt builds them faster by using paint sprayers and many other labor-saving gadgets banned by the building unions. He prefabricates many of his materials. At his central warehouse, all the lumber needed in a house is precut to size, plumbing fixtures are assembled, staircases are prefabricated; thus only 20% of the construction work need be skilled labor...