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Show hclp in the building. Nobody thought they could put up a new house in two months but both men being skilled in carpentry, set to work. While Mrs. Stryker cheered them on and fed them, they erected a six-room, two-story shingled house in exactly ex-actly six weeks! Mr. Stryker, by the way, is 79 years old. His helper was a trainee war veteran. NEW HOME BUILT IN SIX WEEKS When John L. Stryker went to his employer and asked for a two months' leave of absence from his job in a manufacturing plant in Bridgepore, Conn., "to build myself my-self a new house," it was granted with best wishes, and skepticism. skep-ticism. Facing eviction by their landlord land-lord who wanted the house himself, him-self, Mr. Stryker and his wife had to build because they couldn't find any place else to live. At Mr. Stryker's request, the employer also gave a two months' leave to another worker in the plant to |