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Paperback Suburban Steel: Magnificent Failure of the Lustron Corp Book

ISBN: 0814252737

ISBN13: 9780814252734

Suburban Steel: Magnificent Failure of the Lustron Corp

(Part of the Urban Life and Urban Landscape Series)

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Suburban Steel chronicles the rise and fall of the Lustron Corporation, once the largest and most completely industrialized housing company in U.S. history. Beginning in 1947, Lustron manufactured porcelain-enameled steel houses in a one-million-square-foot plant in Columbus, Ohio. With forty million dollars in federal funds and support from the highest levels of the Truman administration, the company planned to produce one hundred houses...

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