Word: rural
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...husband Philip to shed a ray of royal hope in the one region of prosperous Britain that is visibly and chronically depressed. "Dark, Satanic Mills." Lancashire is not the tourists' England. Forty miles wide by 60 miles long, it is bisected by the river Ribble into a northern rural section that merges into Wordsworth's Lake District, and a southern industrial coalfield choked with so many cities, slums, mining villages and cotton mills, greyhound stadia, slagheaps, canals and railroad sidings that it forms a single complex, something like the Ruhr. South Lanes, as Britons call...
...pale, peaked schoolgirl in the Serbian market town of Bagrdan, Ljubinka Milosavljevic, according to one of her teachers, "never particularly distinguished herself in anything." But the necessities of war and the peculiar demands of Communist ideology brought out unsuspected talents in this rural railroad switchman's daughter. By 1941, at the age of 24, mousy little Ljubinka had become one of the chief organizers of Communist partisan resistance in her home area, and, as the years passed and Tito Communism became the law of the land, Ljubinka's gifts carried her to loftier and loftier posts...
...unbelievable squalor of farm workers blights rural areas in a broad sweep from the Central Valley of California into the Deep South. While prosperous cotton farmers collect subsidies on their surplus fibre, they pay a wages must include these exempted workers, if their lofty statements have any foundation in principle. And with exemptions erased, Congress should vote wage floors that reflect the progress, rather than the inflation, of the national economy...
...Backlands poverty. The oil wealth has yet to trickle down to many thousands of half-nomadic rural Venezuelans, who scratch subsistence diets out of jungle clearings...
Died. William Bingham II, 75, Cleveland-born philanthropist, famed for his efforts to improve rural medical facilities throughout the New England area; in Miami Beach. In the 1920s and '30s Bingham gave away $3,000,000, much of it for the organization and support of the Bingham Associates Fund and Boston's Joseph H. Pratt Diagnostic Hospital to make metropolitan medical facilities available to country doctors...