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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
- RBF to “Town Meeting of the Air,” Wash., DC; 10 Sep’75
