At Deal, England, steel skeletons of houses were arising last week, were being fleshed with compressed cork, tegumented with an inch and a half of concrete from "cement guns." Slow to burn, sound proof, cheap and quick to build with unskilled labor, 25% easier to heat than brick, stone or timber, the cork abodes were hailed as a solution of the housing problem in industrial areas.
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