Word: prefab
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Here he promised one of his new prefab schoolhouses, there money for a new road. He inspected a new irrigation dam on the Tarlac River, ordered the engineers to use bull carts as well as dump trucks to haul dirt-it would make work for the poor people in the barrios-and delivered his favorite speech: He didn't care what the politicians said about Ramon Magsaysay. They could call him stupid, uneducated, or whatever. He was interested only in the welfare of the poor people. That's why he spent more time seeing them than studying...
...Prefab Synagogues. The Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America and United States Steel Homes, Inc. have joined in a project to build, furnish and arrange financing for prefabricated synagogues, day schools and community centers now needed as a result of the exodus to the suburbs. U.S. Steel, which also markets prefab churches, branch banks and homes, says a 325-seat synagogue can be erected within four days...
...PREFAB HOUSING sales went over the billion-dollar mark in 1955. Builders sold 93,000 prefabs worth $1.3 billion, predict that totals will hit 120,000 in 1956, and that prefabs will capture 50% of the market...
Socialist simplicity, he is happiest in the three-room prefab that is still kept for him in the Negev pioneer settlement of Sde Boker. Even in his state residence in Jerusalem, he goes about in shirtsleeves and prefers to eat with his wife, son and daughter-in-law in the kitchen. His wife still cooks his meals and darns his socks. His personality and manners, his leisured kindliness, have remained utterly unchanged by a generation in power. But he likes power, and he knows how to wield it. "The world," says Ben-Gurion, "is not yet accustomed to the revival...
...Negev Desert seven years ago to seize an elevenmile coastline at the head of the Red Sea's Gulf of Aqaba, Elath was just a name on the edge of the barren red cliffs. Today Elath is a port settlement of 500, with a jetty, barracks, airfield, a prefab town hall, a power plant, botanical garden and stadium. By next year Elath is to house the first of up to 12,000 Israelis, who will smelt and ship 7000 tons of copper a year from the newly reopened King Solomon's mines, high in the flinty heart...