Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What was this new thing the U.S. was in? World War III? Could Armageddon begin with so feeble a fanfare as the muffled Battle of Korea? Could the pushbutton war of the physicists start among the grass roofs of a land where men had hardly caught up with Galileo? Was this the place and was this the way in which Marx and Jefferson came to final grips...
...could be. The fire in the grass roofs of Korea might spread into atomic war-and it might not. It might, on the other hand, be the beginning of peace...
...community has an almost antiseptic air. Levittown streets, which have such fanciful names as Satellite, Horizon, Haymaker, are bare and flat as hospital corridors. Like a hospital, Levittown has rules all its own. Fences are not allowed (though here & there a homeowner has broken the rule). The plot of grass around each house must be cut at least once a week; if not, Bill Levitt's men mow the grass and send the bill. Wash cannot be hung out to dry on an ordinary clothesline; it must be arranged on rotary, removable drying racks and then not on weekends...
...owner (50%) of the $10.5 million Levitt & Sons, Inc., Bill pays himself $125,000 a year; Architect Alfred, who owns the other 50%, draws the same. Father Abe, who now spends his time landscaping, is paid $60,000 for being what some Levittowners call "vice president in charge of grass seed." From outside interests (e.g., the California timber stands and two country clubs which are operated in connection with the Levitts' more expensive Strathmore developments) the brothers get another $150,000 a year apiece. And when they sold 4,028 of Levittown's rental houses (leaving them only...
...undulating dairylands from Wisconsin eastward, the world's healthiest cows placidly ruminated the rich grass which magically replenished their udders faster than the nation could consume the flow of milk and cream. It was corn-cultivating and hog-fattening time in the black-soiled heartland fed by the Mississippi and her tributaries. In Iowa, the corn already stretched six inches toward the Midwestern sky, was building toward another big crop...