Suburban Steel African American History by Elizabeth Daniels

by Elizabeth Daniels

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Suburban Steel African American History by Elizabeth DanielsSuburban Steel chronicles the rise and fall of the Lustron Corporation, once the largest and most completely industrialized housing company in U. S. history. Beginning in 1947, Lustron manufactured porcelain enameled steel houses in a one million square foot plant in Columbus, Ohio. With forty million dollars in federal funds and support from the highest levels of the Truman administration, the company planned to produce one hundred houses per day,