Word: rural
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...extras or other editions of the CRIMSON that may appear before the game will be the doings of a certain small rural daily in New Hampshire...
Receipt Delayed. Robert Ledterman and Norbert O'Neill, business associates of Bobby's father, made two abortive efforts to deliver the ransom to Hall. The first time his instructions were too confused to follow. Next, the cash-filled duffel bag was dropped off in a rural spot, but Hall telephoned to say that he had not found it. Ledterman and O'Neill went back and retrieved...
...Titfield Thunderbolt (Rank; Universal-International) will carry railway enthusiasts on a satisfying junket through the past century of British railroading. When nationalization dooms the unprofitable branch line running from rural Titfield to the market town of Mallingford. the indignant citizens of Titfield take over the archaic rolling stock, with the vicar serving as engineer, the village ne'er-do-well as fireman, and a local squire as brakeman. An alcoholic landowner (Stanley Holloway) supplies the necessary money on being promised that the early-morning train will carry a bar-and-buffet...
...Canyon project in the Columbia River Basin tells the story. If they can give Hell's Canyon away, others will follow. The power lobby is doing its best to take over Niagara Falls. And the bell will be tolling for the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Rural Electrification Administration and all the rest...
...roam still has its traditions of Populism, the I.W.W.s and assorted brands of native radicalism, aimed for the most part against the moneybags of the East. A managed farm economy, public power, Government control and regulation can raise the hair of an Eastern conservative. Not so on his rural brother of the Midwest and West. That man, if his personal interests so dictate, can vote G.O.P. and be conservative on 99 issues, yet fight stubbornly for one thing which the Easterner might regard as an idea right out of the Kremlin...