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Word: eastwicks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1958-1958
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...What we're doing now," he says, "is deliberately making non-Negro apartments for older whites, pricing them out of the Negro range. We're designing the Eastwick project [2,500 acres, 12,000 units, in southwestern Philadelphia] the same way. We hope that no more than 10% of Eastwick will be Negro. We have to give the whites confidence that they can live in town without being flooded." Dilworth is against an anti-discrimination ordinance for the city, since he believes that it would only serve to panic the whites all the more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CITIES: Philadelphia's New Problem | 2/24/1958 | See Source »

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