Word: rural
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such wistful images as a lingering shot of two boys on their backs in a haywagon, rolling along in tree-dappled sunlight, Director Tourneur evokes a full-blown atmosphere of carefree rural living. Equally expert when the film bursts into melodrama, he uses only two graphic shots to concentrate all the impact of a burning-cross visitation by the Klan. When the parson later heads off a lynching by an appeal to the mob's better instincts, the situation is strictly bogus; yet the scene plays with sure effectiveness...
...each stop she interviewed teachers and pupils, while a photographer took pictures of their classrooms. By the time she had finished her tour, 33-year-old Reporter Margaret Shannon of the Atlanta Journal had enough material for 15 articles-and a shocking portrait of just how bad U.S. rural schools...
...test system would produce an "intellectual elite" in the colleges, and thus is undemocratic. And, of course, the test itself is not so much one of intelligence as it is of education and background. Thus, some groups would definitely be discriminated against--Negroes, low income groups, people in backward rural areas...
...Islands' government is in trouble. Inflation, resulting from unwise spending of American payments, has reduced the real income of rural and urban workers. They are becoming restive. As the Hukbalahap revolt became stronger, sudden military expenses drained the treasury...
Providing adult adduction in farm areas and working with local 4-H clubs, the Extension Service advises on farm and rural problems through its staffs of district leaders and country agents. A corps of state specialists in the different phases of agriculture and home management introduce and demonstrate the latest techniques developed in the Service's farm laboratories...