Word: ranches
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Ranch v. Cape Cod. The influence of Levitt & Sons on housing goes much further than the thresholds of its own houses. Its methods of mass production are being copied by many of the merchant builders in the U.S., who are putting up four of every five houses built today. It is such mass production on one huge site which is enabling U.S. builders to meet the postwar demand and to create the biggest housing boom in U.S. history...
...June was probably even better. This year the U.S. will probably build 1,250,000 units; there is scarcely a city without some big new development. Though some of the houses are ugly and some projects poorly planned, most had one thing in common: the houses are nearly all "ranch houses," a loose term for any house whose rooms are concentrated on the first floor...
...Barbara, Calif., hired two assistants and opened a private school for nine boys. Headmaster Curtis Wolsey Gate, who had been an English master at nearby Thacher School, was convinced that the West could use another school that combined English-style private education with the rough & ready atmosphere of California ranch life. Last week, looking back over 40 years of his experiment, 65-year-old Founder Cate was more convinced than ever...
Since his overthrow five years ago by a Brazilian army clique, ex-Dictator Getulio Vargas has lived the quiet life of a gentleman gaucho on his estancia in Rio Grande do Sul. To visitors he spoke of his ranch as "this secluded spot so remote from political agitation." He smoked long cigars, wore a cowboy's bombachas, tended his cattle, and waited...
...wait seemed over last week, and the Vargas ranch was the country's center of political agitation. Question of the hour: Would the ex-dictator, now 67, choose to run in October's presidential election...