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Fortnight ago The New Yorker discovered a family of three who had moved out of a $125-a-month apartment in mid-Manhattan, taken to living in their two-room trailer jacked up in a Broadway parking lot for $25 a month. First such case to make news in dense New York City, this was only an inkling of a problem that is vexing local authorities and real-estate owners all over...
According to the latest estimate of the American Automobile Association, there are 1,000,000 people living in trailers. Most of these are constantly on the move. But many have settled down at one spot. The question thus arises: Is the trailer a taxable home or a nontaxable automobile accessory? Last week, in tiny Orchard Lake, Mich., the first court to study the question handed down an answer of tremendous importance to the rapidly growing horde of trailerfolk...
Some old-fashioned truck tractors and their trailers weigh ten tons unloaded, 40 loaded. To reduce vehicle weight, trailer makers are experimenting with the new Pullman technique of incorporating the frame in the body. As for safety, truck makers now claim that the driver alone can be improved...
...pickup-delivery system, a service New York Central is not ready to offer. Furthermore New York Central has a heavy stake in a service which provides shippers with big steel boxes that can be loaded on flat cars. B. & O. could go that one better by running a Keeshin trailer on flat cars, running it off at its destination to be attached to a Keeshin truck tractor...
...early days Masonite used to sell more insulating board than hard board but a steady accumulation of new uses for Presdwood has changed the story. Last year 100 carloads of Presdwood were sold to Hollywood producers for scene sets, 200 carloads to the automobile industry, another 200 carloads to trailer makers. A relatively new outlet is for concrete forms. Twelve manufacturers fabricate it as artificial tile, and the toy industry takes it in hundreds of carloads. But the building industry is the big market, Presdwood being particularly adaptable to modernistic design. The Masonite house was one of the architectural high...