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An “absurd situation” it is, observed President Frederick Paul Keppel of the Carnegie Corporation last week, that engineers have applied their science far less to buildings than to motor cars. A car twice as good as one built a few years ago now costs half as much. The building situation, he declared, is “just about reversed.” President Keppel recommended that some philanthropist create a “foundation devoted to the study of housing problems and equipped to experiment in different types of design and construction.”
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