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...went into business drumming up loan prospects for Prudential Life and selling houses on the side. One day, says Price, "somebody asked if I'd could sell him a prefabricated house. I'd never seen a prefab, but I said yes." He bought a prefab from Gunnison Housing Corp. (now a U.S. Steel subsidiary), and decided that there were big opportunities in the business. (He has long since passed Gunnison as the No. 1 maker of prefabs...
...Steel, which has made pre- fabricated wooden houses (Gunnison) since 1944, now hopes to make a big dent in the U.S. housing market with steel models. At a big, new $5,500,000 plant near Harrisburg, Pa., Big Steel will soon turn out 4-ft.-wide steel panels with built-in insulation, and other parts that can be used to assemble complete houses, hospital buildings and schools...
Competition for Quonset. A "revolutionary" steel military shelter was announced by President John J. O'Brien of Gunnison Homes, Inc., a subsidiary of U.S. Steel. Insulated with Fiberglas, the barracks-type, all-steel units will be demountable, portable and fire-and hurricane-proof. Any part can be lifted by two men, and five men can erect a 20-by-48-ft. basic shelter in one day, using only hammers, pins and wedges. Gunnison says its shelter is better looking than the Quonset huts, has no space-wasting curves, can be painted more easily, gives better protection in combat areas...
...HENDRICKSON Gunnison, Colo...
Into a huge tent near Gunnison, Colo, last week strode brisk, blue-eyed "Colonel" Arthur Weimer Thompson, dean of U.S. cattle auctioneers. In his clarion voice he addressed his audience of 1,500: "You men are the backbone of America. Burn all the cities down-you farmers and ranchers will live. Tear up the farms and ranches-that's the end for everybody...