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...Precision-Built Homes Corp. will offer 40 models priced from $3,700 to $10,000. President F. Vaux Wilson Jr. shuns the word "prefabrication" (as does many another company), proudly points out that Precision-Built will build according to architect's plans selected by individual customers. Builder Wilson originally founded the company to help sell his Homasote wallboards, built 5,000 houses in 138 days for the U.S. Navy in Portsmouth, Va. Department stores are now taking orders. But Precision's Milwaukee plant will not be in production until spring...
...South America's record-breaking 14 cardinals were dotted on the map with the same sense of worldwide polity. Cuba, Chile and Peru got their first cardinals, while Brazil and Argentina were upped to two apiece. Most notable Latin choice: tall, taciturn, efficient Bishop Antonio Caggiano of Rosario, builder of Argentina's Catholic Action movement, who has often shown hatred of Fascism and antiSemitism...
...Stritch, N.C.W.C. vice-chairman, gave his apostolic benediction to a high-school group of Christmas carolers, said modestly: "It pleased me greatly that our Holy Father has so signally honored the archdiocese of Chicago. . . . The honor done to my person fills me with overwhelming gratitude." The Cardinal-designate, a builder as well as a scholar, at 58 has behind him. a long record of achievement: Bishop of Toledo at 34, Archbishop of Milwaukee, then of Chicago...
...fourth American Cardinal-designate, Irish-born, 83-year-old Archbishop John Joseph Glennon of St. Louis, is a great builder and money-raiser. Consecrated bishop in 1896, he is also dean of U.S. Catholic archbishops. He received the first news of his elevation before Sunday breakfast, when a local radio station phoned him. Then messages came from his old friends Baseball Fan Jim Farley and Archbishop Spellman, finally official notification from. Apostolic Delegate Cicognani. When he was sure, Cardinal-designate Glennon spoke like a loyal St. Louisan: "The Holy Father didn't forget St. Louis. . . . Our Catholic people show...
Priority houses will have to sell for $10,000 or less, including the land, or rent for $80 a month or less. And any veteran, or private builder, who sells his house must abide by a set schedule of prices. Roughly half of the available supply of most of the critical materials listed will be set aside for holders of priorities...