Word: rural
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...City Dreams. Across the land the prosperous face of the U.S. took on a new look as businessmen marched into rural areas where industry had never set foot before, transforming crossroads towns into fast-growing cities. For years the sleepy little town of Twinsburg (pop. 1,250), Ohio, huddled on a road between Akron and Cleveland, was nothing more than a village square, a bank, a cluster of stores. This year Chrysler Corp. moved in with an $85 million body plant and jobs for 3,500. Now Twinsburg has big-city dreams. The town fathers are planning...
...affections, leaning not toward Vermont, a scant ten or so miles across rocky, easy, moulded hills, but toward English-speaking Canada. In architecture, the village has preserved the colonial tradition introduced by its founder, Moses Copp, in 1797; in attitude, Georgeville looks to the slowly maturing Victorian values of rural Ontario, strong in its desire to develop a "Canadian culture," or way of looking at things, sentimental in its regard for the Commonwealth and Queen...
Before the war, most private meteorologists were rural quacks who went by the phases of the moon or the furriness of caterpillars. The postwar crop is generally more responsible and far more effective. Most of them do not try "to beat the Weather Bureau." Instead, they take Weather Bureau information and extract from it facts of special importance to their customers. They coach oil companies on whether they should evacuate their offshore drilling rigs in the path of a hurricane. Knowledge that evacuation is not necessary may save many thousands of dollars. Small business for the private weathermen is advising...
...writers of these 15 short stories have several things in common. They are middle-aged (ranging from 41 to 48) and have thus been exposed to two world wars and a depression. They are Northerners, so their theme is largely urban frustration instead of the fashionable Southern predilection for rural decay. And like most contemporary short-story writers, they are at their best when remembering their childhood. The exception to this rule is Brooklynite Daniel Fuchs, who here ignores adolescence and is the only one of the four to deal with the excitements of earning a living...
...state legislature, three terms as attorney general, if In Democratic-inclined (but pro-Ike) Minnesota, Governor Orville Freeman, 38, an ex-marine with a reputation for being a homey family man (toasted marshmallows in the fireplace) and the administrator of a trouble-free office, knocked off Ancher Nelsen, onetime Rural Electrification Administrator, ardent Ike-man and former lieutenant governor...