Word: levitts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last three weeks, our sales have doubled in just about all markets," adds Richard Wasserman, president of ITT Levitt Inc., the nation's largest home builder...
Almost every American courthouse has its group of hangers-on-unofficial legal scholars who keep a critical eye on judges, lawyers, jurors and witnesses. To discover who those people are, TIME Correspondent Leonard Levitt recently prowled the corridors of the New York State Supreme Court building in Brooklyn. He found amateur philosophers, sensation seekers-and a surprising amount of legal expertise. His report...
...pits, the sad, self-deprecating humor persists. But for a small, growing number of New York Jews, the cultural heritage of flight or passivity is being angrily, even bitterly rejected. Especially among the young, the poor and the Orthodox in the marginal neighborhoods of the city, TIME Correspondent Leonard Levitt found a new theme emerging: "We are not going to turn the other cheek. We are not going to take it any more. Sitting back and being passive only leads to Auschwitz." Here is his report...
...disclosed that the exchange earlier this year lent Hayden, Stone $5,000,000 out of a special trust fund earmarked for investor indemnification. The attempt to keep the firm afloat failed, and Hayden, Stone was later taken over by two other firms, Walston & Co. and Cogan, Berlind, Weill & Levitt...
...another move to control costs, some 40 companies have begun manufacturing modular housing-factory-finished rooms that are assembled at the site. Richard Wasserman, president of Levitt & Sons, which is building a modular factory, expects that this system will cut construction costs to at least 5% below those of today's conventional, on-site building. Wasserman anticipates much larger savings in the years ahead because "the incredible shortage of skilled craftsmen" seems certain to drive wages at building sites up much faster than those of lower-paid factory workers...