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Eric Rutkow
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“The arrival of war brought new opportunities and challenges to the firm. In 1941, it received a contract from the government to build sixteen hundred military worker homes in Norfolk, Virginia. The contract demanded speed and efficiency on a scale that the Levitts had never before attempted. In response, they began to experiment with mass-production techniques: time-consuming dug-out basements were replaced with poured-cement foundations; walls and roofs were partly preassembled; construction was broken down into simple tasks that could be performed without trained carpenters or unionized labor. Homes became stationary units in a moving assembly line of people; it was Fordism turned on its head. Thanks in large part to these innovations, the Levitts”
― American Canopy: Trees, Forests, and the Making of a Nation
― American Canopy: Trees, Forests, and the Making of a Nation
“Plan your work as if you expected to live forever; Work your plan as if you expected to die tomorrow.â€�124”
― The Longest Line on the Map: The United States, the Pan-American Highway, and the Quest to Link the Americas
― The Longest Line on the Map: The United States, the Pan-American Highway, and the Quest to Link the Americas
“However, since the early 1930s, new-home construction had been somewhat stalled, first due to the economic effects of the Depression and then due to the war, a period when many homebuilders were contracted to meet emergency military housing needs. The lack of immediately available housing forced families to double up and, occasionally, to take more extreme measures. In 1947, two years after the war’s end, some 500,000 families were still occupying Quonset huts or other temporary housing. In Chicago, 250 families took up residence in former trolley cars that had been converted into living quarters. In Omaha, one newspaper advertisement declared: “Big Ice Box, 7x17 feet, could be fixed up to live in.”
― American Canopy: Trees, Forests, and the Making of a Nation
― American Canopy: Trees, Forests, and the Making of a Nation
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