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When the Yorkshire Electricity Board was appointed in 1947, the colonel knew just the right spot for its headquarters. With a little remodeling, stately Scarcroft Lodge, a 120-year-old mansion overlooking 160 acres of rolling farmland, would be absolutely top-hole. It was situated well beyond the industrial smog of ugly, workaday Leeds (pop. 510,000). There was a little matter of building permits before Scarcroft could be remodeled, but the colonel soon fixed that. He had a word with the Ministry of Fuel and Power, got permission to spend $112,000 on scarce building materials...
...fast-growing little Ephrata, Wash. (1950 pop. 4,584). The word settlers, as used there, is no nostalgic recall of old frontier days. Inside the door sit the 1951 settlers themselves, sun-weathered men & women who have come to Ephrata in search of a new frontier-the irrigated farmland created out of sagebrush desert by Grand Coulee Dam. They ask sober, practical questions, but in their eyes glows the same high excitement that built the U.S. The bureau believes that they are only forerunners of millions or tens of millions who can be given farms and homes in what...
...Province. As soon as the settlers are in, the whole parade of U.S. life will march in behind them. The villages in the sagebrush will grow into fair-sized towns. They will need houses, stores, schools, churches and skilled workers. The U.S. will gain not merely new farmland; it will add a whole new province as productive as one of the lesser states...
...flat acres of potato farmland near Hicksville, Long Island, an army of trucks sped over new-laid roads. Every 100 feet, the trucks stopped and dumped identical bundles of lumber, pipes, bricks, shingles and copper tubing-all as neatly packaged as loaves from a bakery. Near the bundles, giant machines with an endless chain of buckets ate into the earth, taking just 13 minutes to dig a narrow, four-foot trench around a 25-by-32 ft. rectangle. Then came more trucks, loaded with cement, and laid a four-inch foundation for a house in the rectangle...
...case, the deal gave the Levitts enough money to expand their building activities. They have bought 1,400 acres of Long Island farmland, plan to build 4,000 houses (complete with built-in television) on it this year to sell at their standard price...