The official's proposal, according to Muntz, would add a bureaucratic overhead negating the low production costs. In the summer of 1948, a Federal Housing Administration official met Muntz about the project.

The home could be toured for one dollar, with proceeds going to the Cancer Prevention Society. Sunset Lot in Hollywood for three months. Built mostly of aluminum and glass, it was on prominent display at Stage 8 of the Warner Bros. Fresco came closest to traditional career success with this project. Fresco, 32 years old at the time, along with his associates Harry Giaretto and Eli Catran conceived, designed and engineered a project house called the Trend Home. Muntz invested $500,000 seed money in the project. Trend Homeįresco was commissioned by Earl 'Madman' Muntz, to design low cost housing. Fresco did not adjust to military life and was discharged. One design he produced was a 'radical variable camber wing' with which he attempted to optimize flight control by allowing the pilot to adjust the thickness and lift of the wings during flight. He was assigned technical design duties for the United States Army Air Forces at Wright Field design laboratories in Dayton, Ohio. In 1942, Fresco was drafted into the United States Army. Fresco resigned from Douglas because of design disagreements. Some of his designs were considered impractical at the time and Fresco's design ideas were not adopted. He presented designs including a flying wing and a disk-shaped aircraft. Career Aircraft industryįresco worked at Douglas Aircraft Company in California during the late 1930s. He left home at the age of 14, hitchhiking and 'jumping' trains as one of the so-called ' Wild Boys of the Road'. Fresco attended the Young Communist League before being 'physically ejected' for loudly stating that 'Karl Marx was wrong!' after a discussion with the league president during a meeting. A teenager during the Great Depression, he spent time with friends discussing Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, science, and the future. He later turned his attention to technocracy. Fresco's father was an agriculturist born in Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey), while his mother Lena was an emigrant from Jerusalem. Jacque Fresco was born on March 13, 1916, and grew up in a Sephardi Jewish household, at the family's home in Bensonhurst, in the Brooklyn borough of New York City.

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