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...rescue. He assured her by telephone that she would be welcome in Juarez and would get "prompt and satisfactory service." So Ethel went to Juarez, and found that the service there was still prompt indeed; within 48 hours she had a divorce from Hearst Executive Robert D. Levitt...
...world's biggest homebuilder, Long Island's Bill Levitt has been hard hit by the squeeze of credit restrictions and materials shortages. He had to cut his 1951 output of low-priced houses to 2,500, compared to 5,333 last year, and abandon altogether his "Landia" project for 1,750 homes in the $13,000 class. To get started again at the pace he and his brother Al need for their cost-cutting methods, Bill Levitt has been roaming the U.S. looking for a big, new site in a critical defense area. Last week he announced that...
...their houses. By the time U.S. Steel and Kaiser have their plants running, 14,500 workers alone will have moved into the area, whose total population is expected to grow by at least 32,000. If the Bucks County site is declared a critical defense area, as 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...
Mary M. O'Connell of Jeanette, Pennsylvania, was made corresponding secretary, and Howard E. Levitt 2L of New York will serve as recording secretary. At the first meeting of the new executive committee, the group voted a resolution condemning televising of Congressional hearings...
...object of the new regulations was to cut new housing construction from the current rate of 1,400,000 units a year to 800,000. But builders cried that the cut would be much greater. Said Long Island's Builder William J. Levitt: "We'll be lucky to have a half million housing units built in 1951." Some other builders thought it would...