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...ocean-front street in Miami Beach last week, 500 dealers swarmed around 16 brand-new trailers to see what was new in mobile homes for 1953. Most startling sight at the annual exhibition of Mid-States Corp., biggest trailer company in the U.S., was a lumbering, 65-ft. Executive Cruiser, with bar, built-in TV, movie screen, radiotelephone, conference room, and sundeck from which a model dived into a portable swimming pool. Price: $75,000. But the trailer that interested dealers most was the National, a smaller model with which Mid-States President William MacDonald, 44, hopes to boost...
...bringing out his 1953 models, Trailer Maker MacDonald was reinforcing his position as top man in an industry which in 22 years has grown from almost nothing to a $248 million annual gross. MacDonald typifies the trend. A onetime bus driver, he bought a trailer company in Chicago in 1945, grossed $300,000 the first year. Now he owns seven companies that will gross an estimated $22 million in 1952, with almost 10% of the market...
Rolling Along. After a hefty boost from the wartime and postwar housing shortage, trailer makers kept right on rolling; more than 150 manufacturers last year turned out 65,000 units. Where once the trailer was a jerry-built, often homemade affair, it is now a solid living unit scientifically designed for comfort. Once, half of those who bought trailers were tourists; now almost all the nation's 1,750,000 trailer owners live full-time in their mobile homes, parked in 12,000 "trailer parks" (never "camps" to the trade) from coast to coast...
Settling Down. The old idea of roaming the country in a trailer, and pulling up for a night on a hill with a view, is far from an accurate conception of trailer living. Some localities ban roadside parking and many states have laws governing the maximum length of trailers, prohibiting them from driving at night or on weekends, etc. Going from New York to Los Angeles in a 35-ft. trailer, a traveler must get individual permits from no fewer than six states, and detour around one (Iowa) entirely...
...motorcade with jeeps, trucks, beautiful girls, and a decorated trailer will invade Boston today, as General Eisenhower and Senator Nixon return for a final rally at the Boston Garden...