Assembly-Line Houses Promise Housing Boom in 1947
Washington reports the Lustron Corp plans a $7,000 three-room steel enamel house built in a rapid factory process. Carl Strandlund, Lustron's leader, envisions producing 30,000 to 40,000 homes annually from a single plant, with public and private financing backing the venture. If successful, other manufacturers may follow, similar to auto builders.
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Lustron housing assembly line poised for mass production
Government agencies and private financiers converge on a Lustron plan to mass produce all steel prefab homes at ten per day in Cicero and later moving to Columbus Ohio. The deal hinges on 12.5 million in guarantees with five million in patents and equipment from Strandlund. A Pease led probe backed the plan and industry publications hailed the concept signaling a new era of factory built housing.
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Cicero
Columbus
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Architectural Forum
James L. Pease
Cincinnati
Lustron Corporation
Easy crochet blouse pattern marketed by Laura Wheeler
A charity pattern offer promotes a crochet string blouse Pattern 860 for sizes 12 14 and 16 18 with charts photos and concise directions. Send twenty cents for pattern to The Charleston Gazette Needlecraft Dept New York. Two minor fires cause estimated $15 damage including an automobile fire on Dickinson Street and a stove line leak at Frank C Davis residence.
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Laura Wheeler
Charleston Gazette
Needlecraft Dept
Eighth Avenue
New York
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Russell Dabney
Dickinson St
Charles H. Jones
Frank C. Davis
Birch St
Manwaives hearing in loss of seventy dollars case
William Jordan, 21, of 886 Hanna Drive North Charleston, waived preliminary hearing in municipal court on a charge of grand larceny of 70 dollars from Archie Curtis of 620 Russell Street. He was held for grand jury action and released under $300 bond.
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Hanna Dr
North Charleston
Jarceny
Archie Curtis
Russell St
Three Charlestonians to Receive College Degrees This Week
Three Charlestonians and other area residents will earn degrees at eastern colleges this week. Junius T. Moore of 1541 Quarrier St and Harold W. Thumm of Sissonville Start attend the University of Pittsburgh with Moore earning a Bachelor of Science in economics and Thumm a Master of Arts. Dorothy Congleton of 1702 Virginia St graduates from Stephens College with an AA degree and a certificate of competence. Howard Jarrett, son of Mrs. Howard Jarrett of 908 Highland Rd and Stonewall Jackson high school alum, will graduate from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in May as a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon. Zelda E. Kandell of 145th Ave in Montgomery earns a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Pittsburgh.
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