Word: rural
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rendered to the user." Said he: "We can no longer afford to continue a costly deficit operation paid for by millions of taxpayers in amounts out of all proportion to the postal services that they as individuals receive." His other reasons for the veto: the bill 1) discriminates against rural letter carriers, special-delivery messengers and "many" supervisors and postmasters; 2) enormously complicates wage-calculating procedures; and 3) goes beyond his recommendation for a 6½% raise, which itself is "substantially greater" than the rise in living costs since the last wage levels were...
Financing. Money is one of the candidate's major problems, because the law is so stringent about how much can be spent, and how. The 630 constituencies (five more than last time because of population changes) average about 50,000 registered voters. A candidate in an average rural constituency may spend only $2,450, an urban candidate about $2,150. The agent's fee comes out of this; so do all printing costs (a campaign address, or opening statement, must be printed, enveloped and sent to every voter), headquarters' rent and similar expenses. The candidate himself...
...monthly. "In America you can make money doing something you don't like," he complains. "Here you usually have to do something you don't like, and you don't make any money either.'' More than 40% of France's population lives in rural areas, and some 2,000,000 young men and women work in agriculture. The agricultural pie has been sliced up time and again, until a good-sized farm in France hardly exceeds 50 acres. Such small-farming (although a land reformer's dream) does not make much economic sense...
...view of the condition of the schools, a revolution may well be in order. In 1952, France found it would need at least 29,000 new classrooms, but only about 5,000 have so far been built. While migrations from the rural areas have left half-empty schools in the south, those of the north are jammed to overflowing. In Limoges, some lycée students sit three to a table; others have to use their knees as desks. In Rouen, classes meet on stairways, and in Le Mans, students must share a building with the local Garde...
Humming through Georgia one night in his brand-new Oldsmobile, Georgia's ex-Governor Herman Talmadge, on his way home from a rousing speech to some farmers, ran into one of his state's worst rural problems. Two stray mules suddenly loomed up before his car on the road. "I hit one and turned over," recalled Talmadge. "It killed the mule. I'm just a little bruised." His car was a total wreck. Though his victim was out of the harness for good, Talmadge was soon fitted for one by doctors: X-ray photos showed that...