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...thousands of moderately priced houses around San Francisco, and the traditional but gadgety Gerholz Community Homes in Flint, Mich, account for 80% of production. Biggest of these merchants, Levitt & Sons, has raised a whole town (Levittown, pop. 27,850) of almost identical $7,990 bungalows on the flat potato fields of Long Island. The Levitt boys knock a new house together every 16 minutes, adorn their latest model with such creature comforts as fireplaces as well as modern touches, e.g., picture windows and movable walls that double as closets...
...Onions & Potatoes. Wisconsin-born Bill Gehring became a scientific farmer through spare-time study. He moved to Indiana in 1929 after marrying a Hoosier, got into mint farming by way of potatoes. Jasper County had been a heavy onion grower. When that market slumped, Gehring bought 350 brush-covered acres at $60 an acre (now worth upwards of $375), turned the fields to potatoes, and gradually added to his holdings. "Potatoes," explains Gehring, "meant rotation. To get steady potato crops, I reached for more land. For a good rotation crop, I chose mint. Mint and potatoes meant irrigation and controlling...
Since Gehring never grows mint on one field more than two years in a row, he is still a big potato grower-in fact, Indiana's biggest. His potato crop this year will gross an estimated $700,000. All told, his 5,800-acre farm, run like a factory, is a big business, with an annual payroll of $250,000, 350 workers, two $35,000 mint distilleries, 54 tractors and 150 buses, trucks, jeeps and other engines that weekly burn, in peak season, over 9,000 gallons of gasoline...
Rationalizer. In Tucker, Ark., it took seven prison-farm waiters, instead of the usual two, to serve condemned wife-murderer Harvey Rorie the traditional last meal: fried chicken, fried catfish, mayonnaise, coconut cake, coconut pie, lemon pie, one half-gallon French fried potatoes, potato salad, one half-gallon vanilla ice cream, hot biscuits, vegetable salad, half-pound of butter, one gallon of lemonade, one half-gallon of milk, one half-gallon of strong black coffee, two packs of cigarettes, five cigars...
Ailing Ernie Bevin, Britain's explosive Foreign Secretary, pulled a hot potato out of the fire in a foreign policy debate in Parliament and tossed it into the lap of his old wartime cabinet colleague Winston Churchill. Britain's present plight in Germany, said Bevin, was the direct result of the "unconditional surrender" policy adopted at Casablanca by Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Winnie passed the buck in a hurry. The policy, he said, was all Roosevelt's idea; he himself had not been consulted before it was proclaimed...