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Newspaper

The Spectator

Location

Joliet, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Dec 13, 1945

Page

6

Packaged homes reshape postwar housing plans

Article describes New Albany Indiana firms building "packaged homes" on a production line. Homes ship complete from factory aside from lot and foundation, with modular wings porches garages and arcade options. Production aims for one home every 25 minutes once materials backlog clears, using lamina ted panels and automated finishing to cut costs and time.

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Local sailors discharged from USS Yorktown in San Francisco

The USS Yorktown docked in San Francisco with CM 3/¢ John F. Gusich and 2/¢ Paul A. Rider Jr. among its passengers. Joliet sailors, part of 4,200 high point men returning from Guam aboard the aircraft carrier Fighting Lady, are noted. The Yorktown is credited with destroying or damaging 2,269 Japanese aircraft and sinking over a million tons of enemy shipping. The star Aldebaran emits 160 times the Sun’s light, yet Earth receives 4,000,000,000 times more light from the Sun than from Aldebaran.

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