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Taboos & Codes. As a temporary solution to the shortage, FORTUNE finds Wilson Wyatt's 2,700,000-unit housing program (see above) a worthy...
...Wyatt points out, the housing shortage is largely a result of the war, and the families most painfully affected by the shortage belong to the men who won the war. The case for using the federal purse and powers to clean up the shortage is just as strong as the case for maintaining a Veterans Administration...
...will the Wyatt program get houses up? Will the $600 million subsidies to the building-materials industry relieve the dismal shortage of supplies? Will the building trades unions, traditionally jealous of competition, admit the 1,500,000 new workers necessary to carry out the program? Can the prefabricated housing industry expand from $100 million to $2.5 billion a year, even with Government help? Added to this is the fantastic complexity of building codes, union regulations, price & market agreements, and ancient, self-imposed taboos which hobble the building industry...
Under Bikini's palm and pandanus trees, bright in the South Sea sun and dark in the shadow of the Bomb, primitive man and progressive man held palaver. The U.S. Navy's softspoken, sensitive Commodore Ben Wyatt might well have wondered why progress had to sacrifice this lovely coral atoll, instead of an empty wasteland, a dismal slum or a plaguesome Buchenwald. Bikini's tall, tawny Paramount Chief Juda, manor lord of 160 Christian islanders, took comfort in the will of Heaven...
...Wyatt talked. In simple words, with eloquent gestures, he told Juda and his people of the Bomb. Its power to kill all living things within many miles was beyond belief. But "the U.S. wants to turn this great destructive power into something good for mankind." The Bomb would be dropped on Bikini. For their protection, and for progress, would the islanders help by leaving their home, perhaps forever...