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After the readi ng, Ellroy answered questions from audience members, many personal, following his note that he would “welcome the most invasively overpersonal questions” they could give him. A large smattering of people shouted questions out, rather than raising their hands, a format Ellroy seemed to enjoy...
...merchandisers, not lite architects, who would be the first to exploit the potential of prefab, though mostly in traditional styles--Tudor, Cape Cod, bungalow--that would have made Le Corbusier fall on his protractor. As early as 1906, the Aladdin Company was mailing out factory-made Readi-Cut house kits of precut, numbered pieces. Between 1908 and 1940, Sears Roebuck shipped out nearly 100,000 of its House by Mail kits. For a cost that varied between $650 and $2,500, the ambitious do-it-yourselfer received an avalanche of 30,000 pieces, including lumber, nails, shingles, windows, hardware...
Many readers have praised the accessibility of Caro’s books, which often readi more like novels than history...
...Samuel J. G. Hoare, Secretary of State for Air, told the House that 9 squadrons of airplanes (averaging 12 planes each) are now maintained permanently with the fleet, 27 ½ squadrons are in readi- ness in England, and 18½ squadrons are stationed in the colonies and elsewhere...
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