Word: bungalowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rome, she moved into a hotel suite adjoining Rossellini's. On the way to Stromboli they visited Capri. In the ruins of a Greek temple at Paestum, Roberto plucked her a red rose from the ancient briars. In Stromboli, after settling down in a four-room, pink stucco bungalow with Roberto's sister and Ingrid's secretary, the director and his star tramped the black island hand in hand...
...Long Island plot 20 miles from Manhattan, Builders Levitt & Sons put up a trim two-bedroom bungalow. Like other U.S. builders, they knew a slump had curbed real estate sales; many a new house was going begging because the price was too high. But Bill Levitt felt sure there were plenty of buyers, if the house -and price-were right...
Mushrooming Houses. The next year, brother Alfred designed a 25 by 30 two-bedroom bungalow to rent for $65 a month. These went over so well that the Levitts bought a 1,000-acre potato farm near Hempstead, L.I., named it Levittown, and started building houses on it at the rate of 150 a week. The houses were neat and trim but so much alike that the development had a barracks-like air. But looks made little difference. By the end of last year they had finished and rented 6,000 houses (Levittown's population...
...flips through correspondence at split-second speed and barks out advice and orders to every point of his realm by long-distance telephone. He drives to work in a 1947 Cadillac. Although he is paid $25,000 a year, he lives modestly in the same five-room Ravenna District bungalow in which he and his wife started housekeeping...
...interstate commerce in footballers, was a native North Carolinian. Prosperous alumni, who pour about $100,000 yearly into a football fund, convinced him of the virtues of staying at home. Like many football heroes, Choo Choo drives a new car. He and his family live in a cozy bungalow off Chapel Hill's main street. After he graduates, a loyal alumnus has promised to set him up with an automobile dealership...