Grass roots architecture dominates postwar home boom
The article traces the rise of the rambling ranch and split level styles from 1946 to 1956, spreading from the South and Southwest to Hudson Bay and the Golden Gate. It highlights open plans, fewer stairs, patio living, glass walls, and radiant heating, plus air conditioning and insulation as key livability advances driving a shift toward compressed, functional homes. It notes utilities cost over a quarter of housing expenses and the design remains traditional enough to please older generations.
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Everlades
Bayous
Hudson Ay
Cape Cod
Golden Gate
California
Back Bay
House of the Week design A-701 ranch plan
Design A-701 presents a large informal family room serving as the hearth of the home. The open layout connects living, dining, and kitchen areas with front to back light, rear garden access, and a breakfast nook. Two baths serve rear bedrooms and a private master bath accompanies the front suite. The slab house uses perimeter heating, radiant coils, or high velocity ducts and features brick veneer, shutters, and a low hip roof.
Steel Sees Banner Year For Car Firms
Steel magazine reports automakers aim for the second best production year in history after 1955, with unsold stock around 50 000 passenger cars being cleared by May. Production to rise by month end and continue into late summer as new models roll out, while firms rebalance stocks and steel inventories amid prices and potential strikes. Steel production reached 99.5 percent capacity. finished steel at 128.02 per net ton and scrap at 54.17 per gross ton.
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Cleveland
Morocco Gains Independence From Spain
Spain proclaims the 44 year protectorate of Morocco ended, freeing the sultanate as a fully sovereign state except for Tangier. Sultan Mohammed Ben Youssef and Franco approved accords after long talks, with cooperation to define future ties and mutual interests.
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Madrid
Spain
Morocco
Tangier
Mohammed Ben Youssef
Francisco Franco
Antelope Herd At Baltimore Zoo Has Busy News Weekend
The nilgai herd at Baltimore Zoo gave birth to a 4 pound female calf over the weekend, aligning with the zoo’s 80th charter anniversary. Earlier this year, twins were born on New Year’s Day and Leap Year Day.
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Baltimore
Baltimore Zoo
Real Estate Transfers and Cancellations Listed in County Notices
Property transfers cover 1.61 acres in Union and several LeSourdsville lots with prices from 1.10 to 18.15 dollars. Cancellations include Middletown transfers to Finkelman and others, plus First National Bank of Midd. liens. Additional entries note Green Acres in Chester with sidewalks along four streets.
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Luella Collier
Colon Hawks
Union
Edgar Streifthau
Russell Buck
LeSourdsville
Robert Hagan
John Dishun
Jason Builders, Inc
Monroe
O. L. Lawson
Charles DeBord
Madison
Elida Law
John Wirtley
Somerville
Harry Lander
Alta Lander
Middletown
Dorsey Shepherd
Harry Finkelman
Lester Vesper
Citizens Bldg. L
Arnold Craig
First Natl, Bnk
Midd
County
Chester
Wales
Ladder safety note on pot hook use in painting tasks
The Institute for Safer Living warns that many painful accidents arise from falling paint buckers when working from ladders. A pot hook should be used to secure containers and prevent spills.
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The
Institute For Safer Living
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Middletown Journal
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New York, N.Y
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Central Ave
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Eastover
Helen Ogle
Carl Ogle
Daman Park
AP News
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Middletown Ice & Coal
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Dial
Fies
Soft Water Service CO
Miami Cement Products, Inc
Seven Mile
Ohio
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Feagins Blue Print CO
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