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...didn't look much like a house. It looked more like a big inverted top. When Wichita's Fuller Houses, Inc. unwrapped its new circular house this week, house-hungry U.S. citizens got an eyeful...
...prime attractions of the Fuller house is its low price: not over $6,500 delivered. It is so light-only about three tons as compared with anywhere from 45 to 140 tons for an orthodox house, that it can be shipped from Wichita to any point in the U.S. for less than $100. Its biggest drawback is the drawback of all such houses: building codes automatically bar them in most cities. Bucky Fuller's house has one more drawback. It stands out like a fat thumb among conventional houses...
...aluminum and plastic circular shell supported by a central stainless-steel shaft, instead of a conventional foundation. Newly formed Fuller Houses, Inc. (former name: Dymaxion Dwelling Machines, Inc.) hopes to license upwards of 70 manufacturers to produce 185,000 units a year. But the only licensee to date is Wichita's Beech Aircraft Corp. It has produced only two test models, and price and final design are not yet fixed. Beech expects to be in production this spring...
Every town had its hero; one of the biggest was Wichita Falls' 248-lb. Tackle Willie Bigham (so beefy were his legs that two football socks were sewn together to fit each calf...
First to go on the block will be the 300-unit clapboard project at Wichita, Kans.. As fast as other units become surplus, they too will be put up for sale, along with 35,000 trailers. When these units were built, Congress provided that they be torn down within two years after the war emergency was over, lest they become slums...