Word: exoduses
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...that he has a far more serious mission to fulfill. Mississippi has the most lopsided economy in the South: 42% of its work force is on farms. Striving to eliminate illiteracy and grinding poverty, and determined to raise the lowest per-capita income in the nation and halt an exodus of 40.000 citizens each year, the state has tried to balance agriculture with new industry ever since the first term of Governor Hugh White...
...only an infinitesimal part (less than .2%) of the population of Communist Poland, a wave of anti-Semitism is sweeping the country. Since the break with Russia last October and the relaxation of border regulations, more than 25,000 Jews have applied for passports to Israel. An exodus, including intellectuals, manual laborers and Communists, is in progress, reported New York Times Correspondent Sydney Gruson...
...sense of Communist guilt was expressed last week by Juliusz Burgin. a leading Polish Communist, in Przeglad Kulturalny. Wrote Burgin: "The exodus is a fact containing a frightful charge against our people's authority, our party and all of us. The preponderant part of the Jews who remained after the Hitlerite slaughters have reached the conclusion that in the conditions that prevail after twelve years of the people's authority, they are unable to work, breathe and live...
...Integration may spur a general exodus of white citizens from the capital. In one year the number of white students in Washington schools dropped from 38,768 to 34,750, now accounts for only 32% of the school population. "In the not-too-distant future," said the committee, "the District of Columbia will be a predominantly Negro community...
...with that event, more single rooms, it is unfortunate that the Masters have decided to slam the doors now. When the right to leave the House was left to the discretion of the individual Senior Tutor, who knew the case best, there was, even then, no large scale exodus. The Senior Tutors have the best interests of the House as well as the student in mind and, moreover, they are by virtue of their position, best qualified to judge the needs of both...