Word: rurality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story revolves around a rural young lady who, because of urban finances, takes a job as a maid in the home of a young congressman and his politically wise mother. Some sixty minutes, a Swedish massage and numerous political shcunnanigans later, the former domestic finds herself running in a congressional race against the man supported by her former employers. To complicate matters further, an indiscretion committed by the aspiring congress-woman in the first reel and long since forgotten by everyone, including the audience, comes back to plague her campaign...
...rest of the U.S. was not so well off-long distance service was down 80% in most places, and rural and suburban users of manual phones were thoroughly muzzled. But people got along...
...cities have changed even more. For the first time in Texas history, urban population had become bigger than the rural. Biggest change-and growth-is in Houston, smack in the middle of the chemical wave that has swamped the whole Gulf Coast. Before the war, greater Houston was already the crowded center of oilfields and refineries. War brought it 20% of the nation's synthetic-rubber plants and 145 major chemical plants. Postwar expansion completed the jam, with scores of new installations. Now, the skeletons of new skyscrapers fill the skyline...
...come? And are all rural communities as bad as Miami County?* The investigators were not prepared to say, suggested further study. They thought that poor rural schools might be one big cause...
...bound in picric acid gauze, and his eyebrows would be burned off." You could tell Slim Lynch by a shapeless cap, a tired-looking overcoat, a cynical stare. He sharpened his camera eye on such famed stories as the Weyerhaeuser kidnaping-and hardened his stomach on raids on rural stills (the newsmen usually split the "take" with the dry squad). He got to know practically every cop, private eye, drunk, lawyer, convict and whore in the Pacific Northwest...