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Author Knerr, Douglas, 1960-

Title Suburban steel : the magnificent failure of the Lustron Corporation, 1945-1951 / Douglas Knerr.

Publication Info. Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2004]
©2004

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  TH4819.P7 K59 2004    Available  ---
Description x, 248 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series The urban life and urban landscape series
Urban life and urban landscape series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-231) and index.
Contents An uncomfortable convergence: housing reform and industrial influences -- Crisis management and the rise of the Lustron Corporation -- From politics to production -- Adventures in sales and marketing -- A dream denied -- A porcelain-enameled legacy.
Subject Lustron Corporation -- History.
Lustron Corporation.
History.
Prefabricated houses -- United States -- History.
Prefabricated houses.
United States.
Housing -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Housing.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Business failures -- United States.
Business failures.
ISBN 0814209610 Cloth alkaline paper
0814290310 CD-ROM