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...homes in the Levitt-built Roslyn Country Club community may not be as interesting sociologically (they sell in the $18-$23,000 bracket) or statistically (he's building "only" 400 of them this year) as his smaller and more numerous dwellings, but they are creating a "new way of life" for higher-income families just as surely and dramatically as his Levittown houses are for the younger...
...McCormick, whose first contribution to the Times was a poem for which she got $3.50. Her second, written from Italy in 1921, was a comprehensive account of the rise of fascism and helped win her a job and a start on the career that has raised her to topmost bracket among foreign political correspondents-male or female...
...here at the factory rather than go to the expense of shipping them somewhere else to be destroyed . . . I realize that [our rocker program] will be small potatoes . . . but perhaps you can start a new bureau or something to raise the ante and get it into the billion-dollar bracket . . . We are eager to get the Government checks rolling...
...have no intention of buying a car that costs me the equivalent of a year's salary, but if Kaiser-Frazer or Nash . . . can market a car in the $1,000 bracket as opposed to the $1,500 or $2,000 price tags on the currently misnamed low-priced cars, I for one will be in the market...
...also made more people need scholarship help. A decade ago a family earning $10,000 could generally afford to son to Harvard. The Scholarship Committee frowned on any applicants who listed their family income as high as $5,000 to $6,000. Now some scholarship students are in a bracket twice this high and still very much in need of their stipend. The higher cost of education partially shows itself in the record number of applications turned in last month for next years awards. About 1200 undergraduates want scholarships, and 1200 applicants for the class of '54 want financial...