Plans for postwar housing boom stumble on wartime rules
The article recalls how prewar forecasts of a 1940s housing surge were slowed by World War II priorities and Bureaucracy. It argues that once freed, industry could supply homes, blaming price controls and the OPA for bottlenecks like door and sash shortages, while calling for reconversion of building materials sectors.
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Pearl Harbor
U. S
Pene
Indus
Herbert A. Nelson
National Association of Real Estate ‘Boards
Washington
America
France
England
O.P.A
P.A
O' Eps
Yanere
Miles Colean
Polk County Board session approves claims and warrants
Polk County Nebraska commissioners met in regular session and audited claims. Payments covered County General Fund charges for Geo Abts Carleton Anderson and others, County Attorney salary and mileage, County Clerk and deputy salaries, Lincoln Tel and telephones, and miscellaneous clerical costs totaling amounts shown in the record.
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Osceola
Nebraska
Board of County Commissionas
Polk County
County General Fund
Bo Carleton Anderson
Peboas
Hsee
Steen Carey
Phil B. Campbell
LaVerne Jones
Lincoln Tel. & Tel. Co
Olive M. McBeth
Board of County Commissioners
County Road Equipment Fund
County Road Fund
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George S. Benson
Harding College
Searcy
Arkansas
Wary Lie
World-Herald
Wegner Monument CO
Central City
Nebr
Central City Marble & Granite Works
Ls. Oe Tyical
Court House
OF County Commissioners
Merrick
Guunard
Peterson
A Reece
A. Reece
Staite Journal Printing Co
Teachers Institute
Lillian Timm
Travelers Insurance Co
the University Publishing Co
Wm Wright
F. B. Slusser
Stromsburg Grocery
Stromsburg
J.C. Waddell
Owen McClung
Albers & Alcorn
Milo Chapman
Salary Farmers Union Co-Op Oil Assn
Lincoln Road Equipment Co
Leonard Luft
Harper Peterson
Dward Schlesinger
A . Sinclair Refining Co
Sinclair Refining Co
A. Ss. Nelson
Arthur R. Cederberg
Rene
Salary Farmers Union Co-op Oil Asst
Farmers Union Co-op Oi Assn
Gustafson Brothers
Edwin M. Swan
Kxs
Range
Rea
Gresham
Shelby
Harry S. Hylton
Att.y
Gresham, Nebraska
J. T. Stanton
Columbus
T. Laware
Tillman H. Joy
Robert Mitler
Morgan Auto Service
Overland Sand & Gravel Co
Polk County Implement Co
Socony-Vacuum Oil Co
S. J. Harless
Cramer Oil Company
Clifton E. Johnson
Harry E. Kreis
Gusty Monson
Scott & Anderson
Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. Inc
Donald C. Werth
Farmers Union Co-op Oil Assn
McMeekin 101 Implement Co
Harold Walstead
Philip Nyberg
M. R. Anderson
D. R. Byers
Arthur S. Nelson
S. J. Harless Board of County Commissioners
Travelers Insurance Company
Hartford
Connecticut
John I. Anderson
Falstaff Brewing Corp
ST. Louis
New Orleans
Mr. Farmer
Royal Seed Store
David City, Nebr
California
Tsi
Bush-Gerts
China
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