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...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...
...inflation by cutting prices last March, had to raise them again. The rise in the cost of materials had put the manufacture of more than half of Harvester's industrial power products in the red. The 5% price boost would put most Harvester prices about 2% above the precut level...
High jump--Won by Badman (A),5ft. 10in.; second, A. H. Weed (H), 5ft. 9in.; third, tie between P. C. Tiffany (H), L. N. Stevens (H), J. C. Precut...