Word: almost
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...David D. Bohannon Organization, which is putting up thousands of moderately priced houses around San Francisco, and the traditional but gadgety Gerholz Community Homes in Flint, Mich, account for 80% of production. Biggest of these merchants, Levitt & Sons, has raised a whole town (Levittown, pop. 27,850) of almost identical $7,990 bungalows on the flat potato fields of Long Island. The Levitt boys knock a new house together every 16 minutes, adorn their latest model with such creature comforts as fireplaces as well as modern touches, e.g., picture windows and movable walls that double as closets...
...rectangle staggered irregularly by a guest closet, bookcases, birch-trimmed dining alcove and flagstone hearth. Along one wall were 27 ft. of plate glass windows, with sliding draperies. The opposite wall, facing out into a patio and three-tiered garden, was 32 ft. of almost solid glass...
Scornful of high-priced chefs ("they'll get you over a barrel for money and when they leave they take their recipes with them"), Dobbs turns out cooking instructions which are so detailed that almost anyone, including himself, can make his dishes...
...refrigerators. In one of its zones, Nash-Kelvinator began July with the largest inventory it had ever carried. Meter-propelled sales soon cleaned out the stock. The General Furniture Co., in Chicago's slummy South Side, sold more than 2,000 refrigerators and other appliances in two weeks, almost all on the meter plan...
Strindberg was the son of a shipping agent and a servant girl; his dominant childhood memories were the sound of nearby church bells and a gnawing fear of practically everything. He violently loved his mother, described his feelings as "incest of the soul." Yet, as with almost all the women in his life, his love for her was tinged with jealousy and hate. When she died and his father married the family housekeeper, he cast himself in the role of Hamlet...