Word: levittowners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...before their population reached the 60,000 mark. But in Bucks County, Pa., a new city for 60,000 people is rising dramatically from 5,000 acres that were wood lot and farmland less than a year ago. By 1954's end, if all goes according to plan, Levittown, Pa. will be a complete community, ranking in size with such older Quaker State sisters as Bethlehem, York, Lancaster, Johnstown and Chester...
...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...
Cool Profit. In Levittown, N.Y., nine-year-old Russell Green stocked up his family's home freezer last winter, waited until the temperature reached 96° to advertise: "For Sale: Genuine Snowballs...
County, Pa.,* midway between the site of United States Steel's $400 million Fairless Works and the Kaiser Metal Products plant on the Delaware River. There the Levitts will build Levittown, Pa., a 16,000-home community second only in size to their Long Island Levittown's 17,546 houses...
...Bill Levitt is confident it will be, he will get priorities on scarce materials, and credit restrictions will be lifted since the houses will sell for less than $12,000. The Levitts have bought 2,500 acres (average price: $1,100 an acre). They will break ground for Levittown, Pa. in two months, and will put up a complete community from scratch with the usual Levitt trademarks: swimming pools, a town hall, athletic fields, parks, playgrounds, schools and shopping centers...