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...phrase structures. Both of Robert Johnston's two offerings are well-conceived, but their execution is sometimes muddled by clumsy syntax and a rather loose use of diction. Through the thoughts of a door-to-door salesman who feels guilty for having "sold knives to the women of levittown," Peter Heliczer protests against the impersonality of modern life. The salesman, however, expresses this protest so melodramatically and with such inordinate sensitivity, that it all seems incredible. Heliczer may have intended an entirely different meaning for his poem. If so, the key must lie in the deep and unknown significance...
Your Aug. 15 article "Okinawa: Levittown-on-the-Pacific" should have been "Okinawa: Dependent's Paradise." . . . Take us away from this lushest of assignments and give us that rough Stateside duty...
...other six regional centers will be built at Peabody, Mass, (near Boston), Cincinnati, Minneapolis, Levittown, Pa., Houston, and somewhere on Long Island. Allied will finance a fourth of the centers (including Bergen Mall), expects that insurance companies and local realtors will furnish capital for the others. To help pay for its part in the huge venture, Allied last week asked the Securities & Exchange Commission's permission to issue some $16.5 million worth of common stock (300,000 shares...
...World War II, was still setting new records. Housing starts in August, reported the Bureau of Labor Statistics, totaled 111,000, up 19% from a year ago. In Dallas the pace was so fast that there was a shortage of such supplies as wallboard, cement and plumbing equipment. In Levittown, Pa., where Mass Builder William J. Levitt showed off a new three-bedroom, two-living-room house (with garage) for $10,990, some 30,000 people stood in line to inspect it. In one week Levitt wrote orders for more than 375 houses, representing about $4,200,000 worth...
Builder Levitt answered readily that he had done very well. On the first 4,028 houses that he built for rent in Levittown, L.I., he made a gross profit of about $5,000,000, which remained in the Bethpage Realty Corp., builder of the houses. Later he sold the Bethpage Realty Corp. to Philadelphia's Junto, a charitable organization, for $5,000,000 and thereby paid only a capital gain of 25% on his profits instead of the much higher personal income tax (TIME, March...