Word: civically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outpouring, say united community fund-raisers, is not merely a sign that U.S. givers are better heeled this year, but, more importantly, that they are more civic-minded. The spirit has even overwhelmed interurban bickerings. For example, in "The Heart of America" United Campaign, the Kansas City metropolitan area appeal stretches across the state line from Missouri into Kansas City, Kans., embraces all or parts of five counties in one "united-response" drive. Per capita contributions from 800,000 people...
Unexpected Dividends. Once business, labor and other community leaders are organized for fund raising, their combined brainpower frequently pays unexpected dividends in civic improvements. In Seattle the "United Good Neighbor" appeal led to successful campaigning for bond issues for a new civic center, school improvements, a new main library...
...your finger on. Wherever there's a situation which leads a community to focus on one objective and makes it work together to achieve it, you can't help but score a gain in community spirit. If Seattle is now doing its job for libraries and civic centers and other aspects of a dynamic city, it's in a large measure because it has learned to do it for children's homes and family agencies and clinics...
...grocery sales in Arkansas have dropped about 14%, and grocers blame at least half the drop on the surplus-disposal program. "We think the free groceries have cut into business." says W. Earl Fitzgerald, executive secretary of Michigan's Food Industry Committee, "but we distribute them as a civic gesture...
...Manhattan last week. Producer DeMille made a dramatic announcement: he will turn over all his own profits from the movie "for all time" to a special trust fund to be set up for "charitable, religious and educational purposes." Said he before a civic luncheon audience: "I believe deeply that the Ten Commandments given on Mount Sinai are not laws. They are the law . . . They are the charter and guide of human liberty . . . The struggle between the forces represented by Moses and those represented by Pharaoh is still being waged today. Are men free souls under God or are they...