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	William Levitt Summary
		In 1944, William Levitt, then 36 years old and father of a 10-year-old son and a baby, James, was sent to Oahu, Hawaii as a lieutenant in the Navy Seabees.
		Levitt went on to plan and build another community of more than 17,000 homes in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, which saw its first residents in 1952; It is still known today as Levittown, Pennsylvania.
		Levitt and Sons was sold to ITT International Telephone and Telegraph in 1968 for a reported $90 million.
	www.bookrags.com /William_Levitt (2323 words)

	William Levitt Relationships plus William Levitt and You
		William Levitt feels comfortable in an atmosphere that is open and experimental, and he has little taste for convention and tradition.
		William Levitt may have done extensive traveling in his early years, or in some way had a background which enables him to understand and identify with many different types of people or cultures.
		William Levitt has a freehanded, generous, open attitude and would prefer to spend and enjoy and partake in the pleasures of the moment than to save, discipline or budget himself.
	famous-relationships.topsynergy.com /William_Levitt (963 words)

	Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner - ...
		Levitt is famous not as a master of dry technical arcana but as a maverick treasure hunter who relies for success on his wit, pluck and disregard for conventional wisdom.
		Levitt's typical quarry is hidden not in some exotic locale but in a pile of data.
		Levitt and Dubner suss out all kinds of surprising truths -- sometimes important ones, sometimes merely fascinating ones -- by means of a smart, deep, rigorous, open-minded consideration of facts, with a fearless disegard for whom they might be upsetting.
	www.freakonomics.com /reviews.php (958 words)

	William Levitt Relationships: William Levitt's Age Group
		William Levitt is part of a 30-year group of people with a carefree attitude towards life.
		William Levitt is part of a 14-year group of people that are highly intuitive, emotional, and sentimental.
		William Levitt is part of a 7-year group of people who are active in reforming businesses, governments, and other large social structures.
	famous-relationships.topsynergy.com /William_Levitt/Influences.asp (783 words)

	William Levitt Relationships plus William Levitt and You
		William Levitt feels comfortable in an atmosphere that is open and experimental, and he has little taste for convention and tradition.
		William Levitt may have done extensive traveling in his early years, or in some way had a background which enables him to understand and identify with many different types of people or cultures.
		William Levitt is old-fashioned about courtship and love relationships, and will remain faithful to his loved one in good times and in bad.
	www.topsynergy.com /famous/William_Levitt.asp (898 words)

	Levitt Corp. v. Levitt (1979)
		Levitt may be connected, is designed to avoid the likelihood of confusion that would arise if the defendants could invoke the names of earlier Levitt projects in reciting the highlights of his career.
		Levitt may use his name only in a manner not likely to create confusion with Levitt Corporation, it is beyond cavil that a district court sitting in equity may devise a remedy that extends or exceeds the terms of a prior agreement between the parties if it is necessary to make the injured parties whole.
		Levitt and the corporation will not protect the plaintiff's rights, for the effect of such a statement would be to inform the public that the achievements to which Levitt Corporation justly lays claim really are attributable to the efforts of someone else, now in business for himself.
	www.law.uconn.edu /homes/swilf/ip/cases/levitt.htm (3253 words)

	Southern Hills Plantation : Builders
		Levitt and Sons has built and sold more than 200,000 homes since its inception in 1929.
		Levitt and Sons has met the needs of this “empty nester” and early retirement market by specializing in quality homes and the best in recreational amenities in its active adult communities throughout Florida.
		Levitt and Sons is a subsidiary of Levitt Corporation, which is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol LEV.
	www.southernhillsplantation.com /builders.asp?bldrLevitt (143 words)

	Profotos - Helen Levitt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Her fl and white shots are almost all exterior, at a medium distance from the subjects and depict the self at its most extroverted, surreal, natural state, children at play.
		Levitt's found children are emotional, masked, climbing, miming, dancing, dreaming and acting.
		Levitt doesn't manipulate the situation, rather anticipates it and removes evidence of herself as photographer so we can enjoy a new moment we wouldn't have otherwise.
	www.profotos.com /education/referencedesk/masters/masters/helenlevitt/helenlevitt.shtml (672 words)

	William Levitt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		William Levitt was born in Berwick Sussex England in 1818, his parents were William Robert Levett and Mary Ann Davis.
		William Levitt was found drowned in the Louisa Creek near Mudgee in on the 21st of September 1856.
		William Levitt was buried at St Stephens Louisa Creek on the 23rd September 1856 and the undertaker was William Walls carpenter..
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~joanne/william__levitt.htm (250 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/William Levitt
		Levitt's innovation in creating this planned community was to build the houses in the manner of an assembly line.
		Levitt went on to plan and build another community of more than 17,000 homes in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, which saw its first residents in 1952; It is still known today as Levittown, Pennsylvania.
		Levitt & Sons was sold to ITT International Telephone and Telegraph in 1968 for a reported $90 million.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/William_Levitt (652 words)

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		Levitt, then 40, broke ground for the first of the 17,000 homes that would pop up on 1,000 acres of potato farms 15 miles east of New York City on July 1, 1947.
		There's also a 1960s Swiss desk clock from Levitt's Manhattan office and a photo spread from Collier's magazine in 1951 in which a photographer shot what was claimed to be the largest flash photography image ever attempted, a nighttime view of Levittown shot with 1,500 flashbulbs by a photographer positioned on the community water tower.
		Levitt used the stock as collateral to build subdivisions in other countries, in locations such as Iran, Venezuela and Nigeria, but the stock tanked, the projects failed and Levitt ended up millions of dollars in debt.
	www6.lexisnexis.com /publisher/EndUser?Action=UserDisplayFullDocument&orgId=1593&topicId=21355&docId=l:563832426 (1834 words)

	McCarthy, Communism & Levittown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Levitt and Sons was exactly the type of corporation that Senator McCarthy wished the American Housing Industry to be made of.
		It is also apparent that William Levitt was aware of this fact and played on it in his own favor.
		Levitt and Sons in 1941 learned a new building methodology while Governmental Units for the Navy in Norfolk, Virginia and utilized these techniques later on in the private sector.
	levittown.whistlingwitch.com /McCarthy.htm (426 words)

	Educate Yourself - Levittown
		Levitt was the grandson of a rabbi who emigrated from Russia to Brooklyn, N.Y. Young Bill, his father and brother got into the housing industry and in 1941, the Levitt family won a contract to build 1,600 row houses for shipyard workers in Norfolk, Virginia.
		Levitt and his brother, Alfred, had been accumulating land about 30 miles from Manhattan, on the Queens border in an area called Island Trees, part of Nassau County.
		Levitt's success bred imitation, however, and in 1947, 60,000 units went up in Los Angeles alone, while one developer, Joseph Eichler, teamed with architect Robert Anshen to offer 51 variations of their standard three-bedroom, one-bath model that they built in Sunnyvale, near San Jose.
	www.buyandhold.com /bh/en/education/history/2004/levittown.html (1671 words)

	The Levitt Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Levitt envisioned a tremendous pent-up demand for housing and, therefore, instructed to those administering the family building business to buy up as much land as they could from Long Island farmers.
		Levitt knew that he was not the only person to have anticipated this housing shortage, and he knew that he would have to devise a plan that would give his company a competitive advantage.
		The essential difference between Detroit's methods and Levitt's was that the auto makers moved materials past a waiting line of men in a factory, whereas the Levitt system moved the workmen from house site to house site past a waiting line of material in the field.
	www.levittcorporation.com /story/index1.php (373 words)

	How William Levitt Helped to Fulfill the American Dream - New York Times
		William J. Levitt, Long Island's master builder, died Jan. 28 at the age of 86.
		The Levitt team managers knew they had to change the essential philosophy of home building in order to meet their deadlines.
		As for the future, Bill Levitt had no doubts: It consisted of men like himself building mass housing for the families of young veterans, who were going to return overnight to civilian life.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9404EED71039F935A35751C0A962958260 (692 words)

	LEVITTOWN
		William Levitt looked upon his operation as the GM of the housing industry, although it was the assembly line in reverse.
		William Levitt once said, ï¿½No man who owns his own house and lot can be a communist.
		William Levitt said, ï¿½We can solve housing problems or we can try to solve social problems, but we cannot combine the two.ï¿½ William Levitt knew that during the 40s and 50s, whites would not buy homes in neighborhoods that sold to fl families.
	www.freeenterpriseland.com /BOOK/LITTLEBOXES.html (2103 words)

	The Start of it All
		According to the Herbert J. Gans' The Levittowners (1967), the inhabitants of the suburban communities established by William Levitt had a low threshold for excitement.
		Indeed, what Levitt gave the people of Levittown was an oasis of serenity amid this stormy and chaotic century; an endeavor to recapture, if not the Edwardian optimism and feeling of domesticity of the early 1900's, than certainly a sense of the stability that had eluded the modern world since 1914.
		Levitt's genius may have fallen short of the expectations of those who wished to see Levittown as a utopia and by those who wished to see in Levittown a dystopia.
	www.antonnews.com /levittowntribune/1999/01/29/opinion/mantin.html (501 words)

	William Levitt UXL Newsmakers - Find Articles
		William Levittand#x0027;s father, Abraham Levitt, was the son of a poor rabbi who immigrated from Eastern Europe.
		History should show that Levitt was part of the ugly gentlemenand#x0027;s agreement,and#x0022; noted Paul Townsend, Levittand#x0027;s former public relations man. and#x0022;Gentlemenand#x0027;s agreementand#x0022; refers to the unspoken agreement among gentiles to discriminate against Jews.
		Although Levitt opposed what he referred to as and#x0022;institutionalized religion,and#x0022; those who knew him say he was not anti-Semitic.
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_gx5221/is_2005/ai_n19141733 (933 words)

	TIME 100: William Levitt
		All the same, it wasn't until the later 20th century that suburbia was imagined as the ideal human habitation, an arrangement of houses and lives so fundamental, it was taken for granted that the Flintstones lived there.
		Levitt's houses were so cheap (but still reasonably sturdy) that bus drivers, music teachers and boilermakers could afford them.
		On July 1, 1947, Levitt, then 40, broke ground on the first of what would be 17,000 homes.
	www.time.com /time/time100/builder/profile/levitt.html (424 words)

	William Levitt Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		During his life, Levitt donated millions of dollars to Jewish charities.
		He once offered to build a separate development for fls but refused to integrate his white Levitt developments.
		Investigators claimed that Levitt also looted at least $17 million from his family's charities to cover personal expenses.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/william-levitt (1798 words)

	Levitt and Sons - Levitt History
		Along with sons William and Alfred, Abraham Levitt started Levitt and Sons® as a luxury homebuilder in 1929.
		It was called “Levittown,” and it was developed so returning soldiers from World War II could start a new life, raise a family and live the dream.
		Levitt and Sons® is a wholly owned subsidiary of Levitt Corporation, a New York Stock Exchange traded company (NYSE:LEV).
	www.levittandsons.com /History/HistoryMain.aspx (259 words)

	Museum Tour
		A walk through this simulated Levitt residence offers an engaging glimpse of Levittown's history, beginning with recollections, photographs, and personal belongings of the first World War II veterans to return to Long Island in search of affordable housing.
		As you continue your tour, you'll be transported back in time as you visit several rooms complete with original furniture, appliances, and fixtures dating back to Levitt homes of the late 1940s and early 1950s.
		And what Levittown historical collection would be complete without a tribute to William Levitt, the developer who envisioned it all and made Levittown a reality.
	www.levittownhistoricalsociety.org /museum_tour.htm (337 words)

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