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PETER SIMON Levittown...
...Levittown I, the Levitts didn't know their own strength. They bought land in relatively small parcels and gradually built a town. Of necessity the town grew irregularly, streets were sometimes a maze, commercial areas were located by chance...
...free enterprisers making the building miracle come to pass are the famed team who gave their name to suburban Levittown on New York's Long Island: brothers William and Alfred and father Abraham Levitt. Says HOUSE & HOME...
...Levittown II is all plan and purpose, down to the location and design of every house, store, school, road, park, playground, filling station and small factory site. The Levitts have even chosen the colors of the houses, named the streets, decided where to plant 250,000 trees and shrubs and "carried their meticulous construction to a point where 8 lbs. of yellow nails are delivered (on time) to every seventh house-which happens to have yellow siding...
More than 3,200 families have already moved into partially built Levittown. They, and those who will follow them, are part of a fabulous industrial expansion in the Delaware Valley north of Philadelphia. Last week U.S. Steel's huge new Fairless Works poured its first iron (see BUSINESS & FINANCE). The furnaces and forges of Fairless are only 3 miles from the gardens and homes of Levittown...