Word: rurality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before the Patriarch left, the President's desk phone rang. On the other end of the line was W. J. Pace, a farmer of Alamance County, N.C. Farmer Pace was calling because he is the proud owner of the one-millionth rural telephone installed by the Bell system since V-J day. He and the President chatted for a short time, and Mr. Truman learned that there are now 2,330,000 rural telephones...
Solutions to these problems are impossible, the speakers agreed, unless the population of Boston is reduced. They proposed decentralization of industries to rural areas so that employees of industrial concerns would follow...
...Bill also strengthened the National Housing Agency. It would have appropriated $25 million for local research studies, strengthened existing aids to privately financed housing and provided Federal loans to localities for slum clearance and redevelopment. There were other titles for rural and farm housing and a provision for a yearly survey by the NHA and local officials to check needs and the progress of the program. The maximum appropriation per year would have been $133 million...
Athenians were regaling each other with the tale of an encounter between a U.S. Army engineer and a Greek peasant. The engineer was taking a sight through his transit along a rural road when the countryman rode up on a donkey. The Greek watched in mystified silence for some time, and then asked the American what he was up to. "Measuring the shortest distance between this point and that village over there," explained the American. "Well," the peasant muttered half to himself, "that certainly seems a complicated way to do such a simple job." "Is that so?" asked the engineer...
Cominform countries have refused to give Tito the industrial materials his rural nation needs. So, said Tito in a speech, the Yugoslav five-year plan must be drastically changed: less consumer goods, more machinery. Nobody, least of all Communist Tito, expected Yugoslavs to like the new program. He said that there were two methods of persuasion: "By words," or, if that fails,"across your back...