Word: prefab
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people want apartments. Architects must learn to count money." Khrushchev ordered Soviet architects, under pain of punishment, to launch a mass-construction housing program based on simple standardized designs. To speed up building, he detailed a shock brigade of 100,000 "volunteer" Communist youths to work in plants making prefab reinforced construction parts. "Everything that can be replaced by concrete," ordered Khrushchev, "should be so replaced...
There are hundreds of new hobby and model kits. Strombecker has knock-down dollhouse furniture (7-and 8-piece sets for $2.50) to give aspiring Chippendales a chance to prove their talents; when they have finished making their own furniture, they can assemble a prefab, 6-room dollhouse from a Keystone Wood Toys kit ($14.95). Renwal Manufacturing Co. has a Be a Designer set ($4.98) with 29 pieces of miniature furniture, paints and traceable designs to make the plastic pieces look different. For more advanced work, Walter L. Herne Co. has a three-sided furnished room ($5) with different wallpapers...
...Indiana University's business school during the Depression, in 1937 went into business drumming up loan prospects for Prudential Life and selling houses on the side. One day, says Price, "somebody asked if I'd could sell him a prefabricated house. I'd never seen a prefab, but I said yes." He bought a prefab from Gunnison Housing Corp. (now a U.S. Steel subsidiary), and decided that there were big opportunities in the business. (He has long since passed Gunnison as the No. 1 maker of prefabs...
East of Sumatra (Universal) is a hasty assembly job on the reliable prefab plot about a white man in the jungle with two women. It makes up for its lack of big-name players by superior typecasting, and almost succeeds in hiding the fact that its characters are crude studies in black and white by keeping them almost incessantly black and blue-in Technicolor...
...prefab tacked on to the Palais de Chaillot in Paris, a dozen staff officers are huddled in talk. They are the advance guard of the European Defense Community (EDC)-the curious alphabetic device that is supposed to fuse the armies of France, Germany, Italy and the Low Countries into a single European Army. Among them is the first German general ever to participate in Western strategic planning: Hans Speidel, better known as Rommel's chief of staff...