Building Business

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Building Business:

"use the aeronautical kinds of engineering we could give you

300-to-1 clear span engineering capability. I know that

humanity is going to stay on our planet. We are going very

shortly to have to come to comprehensive disarmament. When

we come to disarmament, the aeronautical and airspace tech-

nology and their productivity will be really released to be

devoted to human problems. That became clear in the aircraft

designing industry dealing with the top scientists as much as

10 years ago–we found it would be possible to build a whole

city skyscraper horizontally in an aircraft plant under

controled conditions and not out under the rain and the wind

and all that nonsense-- it could be managed to be delivered

horizontally by air, and then upended. It would be perfectly

possible to deliver a whole city in a day. And that’s what

we’re going to do… not repair the old mountains and caves."

"Our building business is 5,000 years behind. At the time of

the New Deal the national debt was only $32 billion, but we

have run it up to 800 billion with 400 billion in interest;

with the federal mortgages underwriting obsolete housing on

which we can’t even meet the debt service."

Citations

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