Suburban Steel African American History HUDRED-DAYS MEN

HUDRED-DAYS MEN

WINDOW GLASS AND SPIRIT BOTTLES

Ohio’s First Peoples recounts their story and documents their contribution to Ohio’s full heritage

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by Dana Martin Batory

Suburban Steel African American History HUDRED-DAYS MENSuburban 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,