Word: rurality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into Manhattan's Commodore Hotel last week trooped 4,000 bronzed and weatherbeaten farmers and farm administrators. Delegates of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, they were there to plump for more and bigger TVA-like projects. They wanted dams and power plants along the St. Lawrence, Missouri, and Columbia Rivers. They wanted the federal government, which had spent $375 million in rural electrification last year, to spend $450 million more this year...
...districting of the nation's some 106,000 school districts, many of which are too small and inefficient, is one of the immediate needs of secondary schools, according to Sargent. If the tiny, rural, autonomous school systems would consolidate their administrations they could provide superior and more varied educational programs than they...
Chicanery in Rhode Island. Rhode Island struck him as "the most delightful spot of ground I have seen in America . . . For rural scenes and pritty, frank girls, I found it the most agreeable place I had been in thro' all my peregrinations." To Chronicler Hamilton the American character in Rhode Island seemed no more admirable than elsewhere: "I am sorry to say that the people in their dealings one with another, and even with strangers, in matters of truck or bargain, have as bad a character for chicane and disingenuity as any of our American colonys...
...belonging to the Japanese and large land-holders, had been redistributed among more than 550,000 former tenants on 15 year mortgages. Unlike the communist program in the North, the peasants were given titles of ownership immediately. The success of these reforms proved a strong bulwark against communism in rural areas and clearly demonstrated that honest and intelligent administration is possible in Korea. Now that the farm administration has been placed in the hands of Syngman Rhee's U.S.-approved government, however, corruption and waste threaten to obliterate the gains made by the occupation authorities...
...people drink? Pollsters from the National Opinion Research Center, who went around asking, got a variety of answers. Said a Pennsylvania housewife: "People think you are dead if you don't." Said a schoolteacher from rural Wisconsin: "I guess just to be sociable. I don't care for it at all; I just choke it down." As a North Carolina building contractor expressed it: "When I drink I feel important." A Georgia farmer: "Drinking takes me right...