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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CITIES: For 60,000 People | 12/22/1952 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 21, 1952 | 7/21/1952 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSING: Levittown, Pa. | 9/3/1951 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSING: Levittown, Pa. | 9/3/1951 | See Source »

...Levittown has four Protestant churches, one Roman Catholic church, one synagogue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 24, 1950 | 7/24/1950 | See Source »

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