Lustron definition

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Examples of Lustron in a sentence

  • After the failure of the ▇▇▇▇▇▇ house, Waterval, who was the force behind the steel house in Virginia Heights, retained a few lots in the subdivision and commissioned the construction of Lustron Houses.

  • After the passage of the Veterans Emergency Housing Act in 1947, the federal government provided direct funding for two firms to produce prefabricated steel housing, one being the Lustron Corporation.

  • The Lustron Corporation offered three basic models, all of which came in two or three bedroom variants.

  • An affiliate company, Porcelain Products Company, was to produce the houses, and the name was soon changed to the Lustron Corporation, a name that originated from Lusterite, a product that Chicago Vitreous manufactured and Porcelain Products Company applied to iron.29 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ hired the Chicago architectural firm of Blass and ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, headed by ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ and ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, the former chief draftsman at ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ and ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, to design the Lustron houses.

  • The Lustron Corporation soon became the “most heavily capitalized and industrialized of the 280 firms involved in the production of prefabricated houses in 1947.”28 The Lustron Corporation was founded by industrialist ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇.