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Show j Gaonset-Type Huts fleet Storage Needs 'little Business' Answers Challenge in Grain Belt called upon by the department of culture to perform a modern iracle, "little business" in 10 ?ywestern states is tackling one 5- "j the biggest jobs of its kind ever '' Ifdertaken anywhere in peacetime. v Its Herculean assignment is the ,-.e preparation and erection of 2,-' 2,-' $ steel buildings each 32x96 feet aI.gerat 670 widely separated locations. rne task arose with the gram velt's acute need for space in which t, store the record-breaking carryover carry-over of 1948's corn crop. In line with ( r -t - r -, - s-f - f i - zl i . r-" xl ' : Grain being loaded into Quon-set Quon-set huts for CCC storage near Paulding, Ohio. ihe trend toward economical "hori. ntal" grain storage, the depart-I depart-I ment ordered Quonset buildings for a large part of the necessary new facilities. These archroofed steel f units now are mushrooming up be-r be-r tide highways and railroads 'near term centers through the efforts of local businesses and labor, rather tan the work of transient crews employed by a few big and distant extracting firms. Within two weeks time more than 1,:W concrete foundations had been kid, and erection of steel was under un-der way on them in every state. 5 Tit concrete work alone was rashly equivalent to laying 25 ciles of highway in a time that an jverage road-making crew would nq-e to put down one. |