Word: rural
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...urban dream of a little place in the country, the New York Times found in a survey, has been replaced by a more urgent "nightmare of atom bombs falling on cities." The nightmare, encouraged by real-estate promoters and advertising copywriters, has increased sales of rural properties-estates, farms, stores and other small businesses 50 miles or more from big cities-by as much...
...certain that he could prove his point. "As his experience grows, Dr. Doubek will be capable of dispensing with many of the laboratory tests now employed in a hospital," said Dr. John Zahorsky. "It is not a question of being opposed to modern methods, but of simplifying them for rural areas...
...Denmark, cancer of the esophagus "caused more deaths among persons engaged in hotels and restaurants, and among commercial travelers, than in other occupations." It is commoner in hotel-filled Switzerland than in England. Stomach cancer is commoner in urban than in rural areas in England, but in Denmark the reverse is true...
...rents no higher than 37.5% of their crop (in the past, rents ran as high as 75%). The land reform has been partly financed by EGA and carried out with the help of a remarkable, little-known organization composed of U.S. and Chinese technicians called the Joint Commission for Rural Reconstruction, which has done important work teaching Formosans modern agricultural techniques...
Most disturbing of all, says the inquiry, is the fact that one-third of the nation is without any public-library facilities whatever. The obvious reason: many rural areas and villages lack the means to provide and maintain them. If the U.S. as a whole is to get adequate library service, concludes the inquiry, existing libraries must give up their isolation. Instead, they should be linked together in regional networks, buying in common, exchanging books, records and films, supporting a common staff of experts...