HOMES BUILT OF GLASS
People who live in glass houses —will be the Americans of the future.
The prediction was made at the American Society for Testing Materials award dinner at Detroit. The principal discussion centered around housing, and the conclusion was that future Americans, like goldfish, would live in houses of glass.
People who have looked out of and drunk out of glasses for years would be surprised at its value as building material. That is the opinion of Mr John Ely . Burchard, vice-president of Bemis Industries, Boston.
“Glass is almost the most promising material of all,” he declared. “The glass technologists have produced double-paned glasses for insulation, glass that transmits the visible spectrum and absorbs the rays of the invisible spectrum, glass that has great resistance to shock because of tempering or lamination, glass bricks and many industrial glasses that can be used m housing.”
Mr Miles Ooleab. director of the technical and low-cost housing divisions of the Federal Housing Administration, urged more new construction.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 250, 23 October 1935, Page 16
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