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New Deal Community of Norvelt

Lectures in History

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The Health Care Cooperative Never Made It

Residents were exhorted to buy from the coop store because it would help the community. But they went wherever they could get the food t cheapest, and that's where they bought their food. The most they could ever get was about 60 to 63 families joining the coop. It really needed 200 or more people to belongnd they couldn't get that threshold. So that the health care never so made it.

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