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used in the devastated areas of Europe, Russia, and the Far 

 East. At this time the prefabricated house will become avail- 

 able to private individuals too. 



You will get the benefits of this manufacturing experience, 

 these opportunities for checking and testing the new type of 

 dwelling, and you will also get the use of the marvelous new 

 lightweight, resilient, powerful materials, developed for build- 

 ing planes, tanks, and battleships, that will later be adapted to 

 peacetime uses. Your new home will be as strong as the ancient 

 castle that was built with walls four feet thick! Most impor- 

 tant, it will be planned and designed by America's best engi- 

 neering brains. 



As Bror Dahlberg, president of the Celotex Corporation, 

 revealed, "We have learned more about building houses in 

 the past two years or so than we learned in the preceding two 

 decades. We have been forced to develop new materials and 

 adopt new methods of construction because accustomed ma- 

 terials have been impossible to get and the old methods of 

 construction were too slow." 



As a result of the "know how" gained in war production, 

 many newcomers will enter the prefabricated-housing field 

 when the war ends. Certain auto companies already are in the 

 household-equipment field. Chrysler makes Air-Temp air- 

 conditioning units. General Motors produces Frigidaires. 

 Nash turns out Kelvinator products. The aviation industry's 

 experience in the manufacture of panels for airplanes should 

 permit it to step easily into prefabricated-housing manufac- 

 ture. Shipyards also have the equipment and the trained men 

 needed to handle machine-made houses. They might build 

 houses in sections as the TVA engineers are doing. The TVA 

 house is sliced into four three-ton sections. Each section is a 

 complete vertical slice of the house. Everything is in place 

 and ready to function when the house is put together. Tracks 

 are laid on the foundation and pulley wheels under each sec- 



