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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...build longer runways for jets at the Bethpage plant. Owners of new houses, who had crowded as close as 50 ft. to Grumman's runways, began objecting to the roar of jets. Navy brass was all for moving Grumman to a less crowded and less vulnerable inland site. But Swirbul persuaded the Navy to build Grumman a $22 million plant and test field on 4,500 acres 50 miles farther out on Long Island. There Grumman may build a successor to its Cougar, a new FioF jet fighter, now being tested at Edwards Air Force Base (Muroc), Calif. Says...
Levittown II is all plan and purpose, down to the location and design of every house, store, school, road, park, playground, filling station and small factory site. The Levitts have even chosen the colors of the houses, named the streets, decided where to plant 250,000 trees and shrubs and "carried their meticulous construction to a point where 8 lbs. of yellow nails are delivered (on time) to every seventh house-which happens to have yellow siding...
...such popular modern plastic products as raincoats, upholstering materials, wire insulation. To be built in partnership with B. F. Goodrich Co., the plant will be the first of its kind in South America. Typically, it is a natural outgrowth of another Matarazzo venture-a caustic-soda plant adjoining the site at São Caetano do Sul. "It is the Rolls-Royce of products," Count Matarazzo announced with finality...
More than 4,000 contracting firms in 27 states had a hand in supplying materials and equipment for Big Steel's new plant; 10,000 construction workers labored on the 3,900-acre site. The Fairless Works, part of the steel industry's more than $3 billion post-Korea expansion program, has 75 miles of railroad track, 20 miles of improved roads, 30 miles of sewers, and a water-treating plant which will handle 254 million gals. of water daily, enough for a city about the size of Washington, D.C. Nearby, 20,000 new housing units are sprouting...
Gropins was alarmed at "today's complete separation of design from the execution of buildings, of the drafting board from the building site." "This," he said while at the University and repeats now, "is artificial, and has led the architect to a dead...