Word: rural
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course, can be cut. Military-some cuts are in prospect. How about agriculture? Will you cut a big deficit of $700 million a year in the Post Office by raising postal rates? How about Welfare? Health? National forests? Power dams? Public housing? Aviation assistance? Civil defense? Business aids? Rural electrification and telephones? Increased pay for all federal workers? School lunches? Veterans' pensions? Veterans' hospitals and other benefits? The FBI? Our courts? Immigration? Atomic energy? Farm-surplus programs? Those are the questions; it'll be interesting to see what answers this 85th Congress will give us after...
After more than a century of isolation from the U.S. mainstream, as Rowan points out, the Midwest's 75,000 Indians (who got U.S. citizenship only 33 years ago) have been encouraged by the Federal Government in recent years to quit the "rural slums" of the reservations. Says Rowan: "Most of the younger generation sees that the arrow is broken, the tribe is dead." But, poorly educated, lacking technical skills and elementary economic judgment, they enter the white man's world with "handicaps that burden no other group of Americans...
Seaton has refitted McKay policy in another Interior problem: the continuing deficit in operations of the Southwestern Power Administration, an Interior Department subsidiary. To make up the deficit, McKay proposed a 40% increase on power supplied by the administration to rural electric cooperatives. Seaton sliced the coops' rate increase to 27½%, suggested other revenue by increasing rates on power supplied to private power companies. He also demanded that a 30-year contract between Southwestern Power and the Reynolds Metals Co., fashioned by Truman Interior Secretary Oscar Chapman, be renegotiated to allow higher rates...
Metropolitan newsmen who daydream of retiring to a country paper have long viewed weeklies more as a rural retreat than as an influential segment of the press. But with the swift growth of suburbs and small towns since World War II, weeklies have largely shed their cracker-barrel ways, developed sophistication and a new sense of mission. Today they are the fastest-growing publications in the U.S. Weekly Newspaper Representatives, Inc. reported last week that the 8,478 weeklies in the U.S. in 1956 reached a paid circulation peak of 18,529,199, up 6.5% over 1955. Estimated gain...
...stop to backlands guerrilla fighting by the opposition Liberals and earned Colombia's gratitude. But his soldiers were not content to be the force supporting a mainly civilian regime. Instead, generals and colonels became Cabinet ministers and governors; sergeants became village mayors. The politicos understandably balked; the rural fighting resumed (TIME, Dec. 31). Rojas cracked down, banning meetings and closing newspapers...