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...typical two-bedroom bungalow in Germany sells for $15,000, exclusive of extra charges for the land it is built on and for such simple amenities as built-in closets. Trying to deflate prices, municipal authorities in Britain and other European countries are helping to promote the sale of prefab houses that can be erected in an hour or less...
Rich men have had them for centuries; Tiberius Caesar raised cucumbers in a mica-covered "forcing house" when his doctor advised him to eat warm-weather vegetables the year round. But today more and more families who measure their estates in feet rather than acres are buying prefab greenhouses for the cost of a secondhand car or less, and filling the house with chrysanthemums, African violets or glossy greenery while the snow flies...
...opportunity missed!" says Arthur Drexler, director of architecture and design at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. "It would have had the same impact on the world of design as the Crystal Palace at London's great exhibition in 1851-probably more so, because the Crystal Palace prefab pieces had classical roots, whereas Bucky's dome is totally...
...vacation houses that are flowering in the land are not necessarily modern. Cape Cod cottages are sprouting on Cape Cod and off it, and prefab log cabins are proliferating beside lakes and trout streams-and even, as in the mountains just west of Denver, in regular rows like any suburban subdivision, with a few pine trees for greenery and a snowcapped mountain range for scenery...
...cost-price squeeze, welcomed U.S. Steel's move as a justification for raising their own prices. Judson Sayre, head of Borg-Warner's Norge Division, said that "the appliance industry would be justified in increasing prices up to 5%." In similar vein, makers of screws and ships, prefab buildings and Pullman cars also mapped raises...