Word: potatoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flat acres of potato farmland near Hicksville, Long Island, an army of trucks sped over new-laid roads. Every 100 feet, the trucks stopped and dumped identical bundles of lumber, pipes, bricks, shingles and copper tubing-all as neatly packaged as loaves from a bakery. Near the bundles, giant machines with an endless chain of buckets ate into the earth, taking just 13 minutes to dig a narrow, four-foot trench around a 25-by-32 ft. rectangle. Then came more trucks, loaded with cement, and laid a four-inch foundation for a house in the rectangle...
Levitt & Sons built about 1,000 houses in 1946 while quietly picking up property for their Levittown project. Before the war, the land cost only $300 an acre; now it has soared to $3,600. "The potato farmers," says Bill Levitt, "got rich...
...tents, on veterans. He argued that any community that wanted control could impose it (as New York State had with Tom Dewey's backstop legislation), that "small, thrifty, Godfearing property owners" were being discriminated against because all other price controls had been lifted. Hitching at his belt, nibbling potato chips and a pickle, sipping milk and coffee, Cain proclaimed that even in 1947 there was no real shortage of housing; the trouble was that people were just not distributed properly...
...quantity the mammoth bean dinner was the high spot of Boston's five-day Jubilee. The beans alone would have stretched from the Common to Central Park if placed bean to bean rather than gobbled by Boston citizenry. And from beans, the dinners gulped on to three tons of potato salad and to 12,000 oven-hot miniature pies. "The most historic event in centuries," said Mayor Hynes in an after-dinner speech...
Farmer Kennedy has gone along with Iowa's other potato farmers, who had voted to reduce their acreage and join 1950's support program. But this week he and his neighbors will meet again and he hoped they would reverse themselves and vote to stay out of the program. In any case he does not intend to reduce his acreage of unsupported onions, in spite of his loss...