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...Levittown, Upper Level...

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

True, the Levitt organization is "the General Motors of the housing industry" [TIME, July 3], but we who bought from his Cadillac line instead of his Chevrolet line are sometimes irked by the public impression . . . that all Levitt houses are per se Levittown houses...

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

...interesting sociologically (they sell in the $18-$23,000 bracket) or statistically (he's building "only" 400 of them this year) as his smaller and more numerous dwellings, but they are creating a "new way of life" for higher-income families just as surely and dramatically as his Levittown houses are for the younger...

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

...Housebuilder Levitt is quoted as saying: "In Levittown 99% of the people pray for us." After reading the article and finding no mention of a church or synagogue among the 40,000 residents of this youthful community, I am moved to ask: Where do they pray...

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

...town these days, proved to be not so big as it thought it was. The Census Bureau counted 7,841,610 New Yorkers. Since 1940 the city had gained only 5.1%, while one nearby commuters' county on Long Island-Nassau, which includes the assembly-line homes of Levittown-had grown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CENSUS: Second Biggest | 7/17/1950 | See Source »

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