Word: prefabs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Birnbaum's doorbell rang early one morning and an excited man broke the news. Alfred and Edna Birnbaum, lucky people, had won a $15,000 prefab house raffle ticket. But, they soon found, it takes a heap of money to make a free house a home...
...Lustron has got no steel to build its houses. But the Department of Commerce's Office of Industry Cooperation has approved an allocation of 58,000 tons of steel to builders of prefab housing, the bulk of it to Lustron. Once before, OIC turned down allocations for steel prefabs, because they require six times as much steel as conventional houses. It reconsidered when RFC and other government agencies intervened. Strandlund and his associates are now sure the steel will come through. As one Lustron executive put it: "Our relations with the Government have always been very healthful...
With all of his idealism, Gropius has articulated the most down-to-earth of educational methods stressing that an architect cannot be a sissy with a mere hand for sketching but must understand materials and production systems as well. A prophet of prefabrication since 1910, he heads the prefab field in the U. S. today with his General Panel Corporation. A distinctive Gropius feature, "component parts," provides for the manufacture of separate construction units, rather than whole houses, ready for assembly to suit any man's individuality. In intelligent use of prefabrication he feels much of our housing problem will...
...sometimes blends silk, bamboo reeds, lucite and copper wire into her fabrics. Every summer Mrs. Liebes disconnects her phone for two months, returns to the trade in the fall with hundreds of sample designs for machine production by Goodall Fabrics. Among her present projects: designing stage curtains for prefab theaters that Henry Kaiser plans to ship abroad, working up fabrics to redecorate Matson luxury liners, for Consolidated Vultee's new 2O4-passenger airplanes, and for 1948 Ford and General Motors cars...
...interest in prefabricated housing began at the age of nine, when his uncle, Jean Valjean Willis, was caught in a prefab privy and washed down Louisiana's Teche River. Forty-four years later, in 1942, Jacques Whiffle Willis was ready to turn his interest to account. His idea: a 1½-story, 6-room prefab house complete with plumbing, for $3,500. It took him four more years to work the bugs out of his plan. By last week he thought he had. From his Home-Ola Corp. plants in Chicago ten complete plywood houses were being shipped every...