Word: prefabs
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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Said the ARCHITECTURAL FORUM : "The parallel between what is happening to the infant prefab industry in 1942 and what happened to the infant automobile industry in 1916, '17 and '18 is inescapable. World War I created a mass demand for cars and trucks which made possible the economics of mass production that, in turn, created a mass market for postwar sales. World War II is repeating the first part of this process with housing, may bring the second as surely as the chicken follows...