Word: rurality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...materials; stronger rent controls; strong federal support of farm prices; ratification of an agreement which would guarantee U.S. farmers an export market of 185 million bushels of wheat a year for the next five years; government construction of more grain bins; crop insurance: a broad program of soil conservation, rural electrification, reclamation; development of more TVAs...
Thus, on Election Day, thousands of farmers decided either to vote Democratic or to stay home. In the normally Republican counties of rural Illinois, the vote fell 150,000 below 1944, 400,000 below 1940. In Indiana, rural returns almost upset Dewey's earlier lead. In Iowa, the farmers assured Harry Truman's victory...
Since the October Revolution at least ten towns, one city and three rural regions have been named for Stalin. Molotov has been immortalized in the names of four Russian towns, one region, countless streets, and a square in Soviet-dominated Hungary. The cities of Sverdlovsk, Kaliningrad (formerly Königsberg), Kuibyshev (formerly Samara) and Kirovabad carry the names of four more Soviet faithfuls across the land...
...with streptomycin, a combination discovered within the past few years, protect against the two most common forms of the plague: bubonic, which attacks the lymph glands, and pneumonic, which attacks the lungs. Sulfa drugs alone work too, in most cases after bubonic plague has struck. In one district in rural China, said Dr. Pollitzer, his WHO teams found 44 cases, saved 41. For the pneumonic form, there is rabbit serum, developed two years ago at the Hooper Foundation's animal building, known to laboratory workers and San Francisco newspapers as "Mousetown"; rabbits, like man but unlike horses (usual source...
...these, Question 2, "The Good Roads Amendment," would prevent revenue from taxes on gasoline and auto registration from going to non-highway purposes. The Good Roads Committee, made up of 300 "non-political" organizations--including the Grange, the Boston Development Committee, and the Rural Letter Carriers--backs this permanent amendment. The Committee says that since 1929 more than $135,000,000, around a third of the tax intake, has been poured into projects "more politically expedient" than roads. The result has been, the group says, a deterioration of Commonwealth roads. The Committee also claims it is unfair...