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...roof was about to fall in on Housing Expediter Wilson Wyatt, while his latest blueprints to tackle the housing emergency gathered dust on a White House shelf...
...units in 1946, another 1,500,000 next year. His latest figures counted approximately 895,000 already started. But nearly half of this paper shelter was still uncompleted; over a third was makeshift housing, not permanent building. Home-hungry veterans hunted in vain for the $6,000 house of Wyatt's first dreams...
With each stroke of the hammer Wyatt hit his own thumb. He quarreled with other agencies, ran afoul of the powerful real estate lobby. Congress had backed down on price ceilings, had failed to enact the Wagner-Ellender-Taft bill for low-cost housing. Wyatt went overboard for prefabricated homes, which would use vast quantities of still-scarce sheet steel. When he asked RFC to underwrite this assembly-line program he bumped smack into RFC's roly-poly George Allen (TIME...
...high dudgeon, Wyatt denied that NHA was involved in any such skullduggery. True, there had been a phone call to NHA from "a lawyer" who represented himself as acting for Tucker. The lawyer had asked NHA to hold up the Lustron deal. But the delay was routine. When the lawyer had called back and said "the deal was off," the plant had been ordered turned over to Lustron...
...more blow at Wyatt's dying program. As the President left on a vacation without making a decision, Washington dopesters gave odds that Wyatt would not get his money and that his emergency housing program was dead...