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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Today Behlen's frameless buildings are used for everything from grain elevators to supermarkets and churches. The buildings can be raised by 20-man crews in two or three days. A Behlen supermarket including interior costs $7 per sq. ft., about half the cost of a conventional structure. With his bigger plant, Behlen expects to boost his gross from about $16 million this year to $25 million in 1959. But he deprecates his inventive skill, feels he only applied old principles to new uses. Says he: "Any engineer can design a complicated gadget that can't be produced...
...housing industry last week demonstrated how better homes can be built for less money. In Knoxville, Tenn., the National Association of Home Builders opened a three-bedroom, 1,051 sq. ft. model aimed at showing builders how new materials and new uses for old materials can turn the trick. Price: $13,500, achieved mainly by preassembled hardboard components. Top features...
...city's Planning Board has recommended that building lines be established along Mt. Auburn St. from Michael A. Sullivan Sq. to Eliot Sq. to permit eventual widening of the thoroughfare...
...proposed building line also passes through the Lampoon building and the stores along the north side of Mt. Auburn St. from Dunster St. to Eliot Sq., but adoption of the line would not affect these buildings. However, new buildings on any of these sites would have to observe the restriction...
Agony Hour. Alaska is virtually doctorless. In the great land's entire western half (250,000 sq. mi.), only Nome boasts a private practitioner. The job is mainly up to seven public-health physicians, including Dr. Brownlee, at five tiny U.S. hospitals run by the Alaska Native Health Service. They serve only 30,000 people, but visiting patients is usually out of the question. For hours at a time, every night, the "agony hour" radio dialogue goes...