Word: prefab
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...major part in boosting the generation of electricity by 81% in seven years, the production of black coal by 36%. To take the strain off the country's housing industry, which in the past three years has built enough homes to house 900,000 people, thousands of prefab houses have been imported. In a booming economy that has shown only slight signs of recession, there is only one other serious shortage: labor. There are some 60,000 jobs waiting for new immigrants...
...Prefab schools are not a new idea, but heretofore most of them have been cheaply built temporary wooden buildings lacking in conveniences. There are signs that the tide is now turning to well-planned permanent prefabs, sturdily constructed of steel, glass, wood and Fiberglas. School officials are frantically trying to find space for the horde of youngsters crowding the bulging public schools. This fall, says the U.S. Office of Education, there will be a shortage of 250,000 classrooms. Many communities simply cannot afford to build the school buildings they need; others have changing needs and such schools...
Flexible & Convenient. Hoping to cash in on the demand, several companies have already started building the new prefab schools. In Hamilton, Mass., Stoner Associates of Boston has just completed a two-classroom addition to the Manasseh Cutler School. It is built of aluminum, glass, steel and Fiberglas, is complete with heating, plumbing, TV and furnishings. Cost: $22,500 per classroom. Another Boston firm, Structo Schools Corp., is planning to build modified prefabs, rent them to communities that have reached their bonded-debt limit...
Edgelea's new school is probably the nearest thing to a prototype of the new generation of prefab models. It is a single-story, brick-wood-steel building, low and rambling, composed of four self-contained, two-classroom units connected by an enclosed corridor of glazed glass (unnecessary in warm areas). Each 2,700-sq. ft. unit has its own twin washrooms, project area, heating plant, storage space and drinking fountains. The units can be used individually or added to as required, can be dismantled and moved to follow shifting populations. With such models, communities will be able...
Dying Flies. Twenty miles out of town, workmen were frantically erecting a village of prefab houses for the conference hangers-on. In the lobby of Bangkok's Trocadero Hotel, where the bigwigs are to stay, painters laid new colors on walls, ceiling and passing guests. In the upper stories, a grim-faced "sanitation engineer," armed with a huge, mechanical Flit-gun, mowed down his enemies by the thousands. "The flies are dying," cracked one preconference resident, "like hotel guests...