Word: rural
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...April 23). Among those indicted: Clarence E. Hood Jr., former acting Democratic National Committeeman; Frank Mize, chairman of the pro-Truman committee and brother of a federal judge. The crimes alleged are both petty and sleazy. The committee leaders are accused of charging up to $2,000 for a rural mail carrier's job, and selling Office of Price Stabilization jobs that weren't there. As for the Dixiecrats (including Senators Stennis and Eastland), they have long since patched up with the President, once more have the state's patronage in their own hands...
...Water. The biggest burden fell on the Kansas City Star and Times, which have the biggest circulation (Times: 353,-836; Star: 363,127) through the Kansas and Missouri rural areas. The Star-Times offices were high & dry in midcity, but Publisher Roy Roberts woke up one morning to find that his ink supply was under 14 feet of water in Kansas City's flooded industrial district. By bringing ink in trucks and tank cars from St. Louis and Philadelphia, he kept the presses rolling...
...little rural college has its share of regular G.I. students, but last February, Vice President George Cash decided there were too many veterans in the foothills of the Great Smokies who were unable to take advantage of the G.I. bill. Unfamiliar with the three Rs, most of them thought it too late to learn. A few had tackled trade schools, with no success. After getting the approval of the Veterans Administration, Hiwassee organized some elementary courses, and Cash put an announcement in the Madisonville Democrat. The prospective students had little contact with newspapers, but the backwoods grapevine passed the word...
Under President Dumas, Southern Bell expanded faster than any other A. T. & T. unit. Since the war it has put $100 million into new rural lines; its revenues have doubled (to $286 million), its telephones increased from 1.7 million to 3.5 million. When Dumas moves into A. T. & T.'s No. 2 spot in New York (estimated salary: $115,000 a year), he will bring with him two reminders of the South. One is the Confederate flag that he keeps in his Atlanta office. The other is his drawl. Says he: "I don't know whether they will...
...more people (most European refugees, immigrants from the Commonwealth and Ireland) have entered Britain since 1931 than have emigrated. ¶Britons seem to be moving slowly back to the country-or at least the suburbs. Britain's rural population is up about...