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Levittown is known largely for one reason: it epitomizes the revolution which has brought mass production to the housing industry. Its creator, Long Island's Levitt & Sons, Inc., has become the biggest builder of houses...
...canal was dragged for bodies while weeping parents watched. Then people began to ask why the bridge had collapsed. Only last December, at Don Moses Lionello's request, the bridge had been repaired. Some turned upon white-haired Gioacchino Bozzato who had built the bridge five years before. Builder Bozzato had no explanation. Among the missing children were his daughters, 13-year-old Dirce and one-year-old Albina, and an eleven-year-old niece Rosa...
About a year ago, Builder Sam Berger set out to change the face of Scarsdale. Berger was modern. His new houses were colonial ranch types and they looked fine, but they also looked just alike. On Scarsdale's matrons, driving by, they produced the effect of a visual stutter...
Gift of an anonymous donor, the $2,000 shell will be used in competition for the first time during the four-mile race with Yale June 23. It was constructed in the Seattle shop of George Pocock, famed West Coast boat builder...
...Over the Easter weekend more than 4,000 visitors paid two shillings sixpence apiece to wander through Blenheim's halls, gawp at the tiny bedroom where Winston Churchill was born, and stare at the battle flags of his great ancestor, the first Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim's builder. On hand to show them around and plug the sale of a guidebook (threepence the copy) was Blenheim's present owner. "Who's that old geezer?" one broadly accented tourist asked him, pointing to a portrait on the wall. "My grandfather," answered His Grace, the loth Duke...