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Although prefabrication has a long history - the ancient Romans shipped pre-cut stone columns, pediments, and other architectural elements to their colonies in North Africa, where the numbered parts were reassembled into temples - the idea took on a new impetus with the technological advances of the Industrial Revolution.

I think Dodd-Frank has contributed to a concentration of banking assets in the hands of a small number of banks.

I'm interested in the gene bank of how Americans have built in different regions in different times.

The connection which formerly existed between the Government and banks was in reality injurious to both, as well as to the general interests of the community at large.

It's interesting that Swiss banks also hide their assets from the Swiss by using offshore bank structuring.

There's money in the old stuff, but there's more wealth created in the new growth areas.

Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.

Anytime we wanted to do something, we found a way to do it through conventional banking means.

Windows were the first thing we made ourselves. Other products, such as cement and plasterboard, came later. Some of the factories we actually built because of union blockades trying to stop us getting supplies.

The original lists were probably carved in stone and represented longer periods of time. They contained things like 'Get More Clay. Make Better Oven.'