Word: rurality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Workers wired Crowder an offer of $8,000. Said Tracy: "There are no strings attached to this offer . . . Truthful and undistorted coverage . . . is all that we ask and [all] we are entitled to." Replied Editor Crowder, accepting the loan: "Your [offer is] a declaration of emancipation of all the rural press...
Theory & Practice. In Ann Arbor, Mich., Fred Viegel, 19, winner of a 1947 prize for an essay on fire prevention, was charged with burning down a rural schoolhouse...
...track down the broadcasters of these titillating messages, Belgian police were patrolling the back roads of rural Limburg last week in small trucks loaded with apparatus for locating secret transmitters. But the dour, closemouthed Flemish farmers were as uncooperative as they were in the wartime days when the Gestapo hunted for Belgian underground radio operators...
...wanted to speed or crawl as the spirit moved him; to read new Burma-Shave signs, flip cigarettes at rural mail boxes, or park and fall into a stupor with the sun on his neck." . . . Even before Maine's catastrophic forest fires of 1947, Maine, with most other states, was trying to educate people and discourage them from throwing live ashes from automobiles or other moving vehicles. TIME, instead of condoning this criminal practice of flipping cigarette butts as an amusing sport, should . . . point out the dangers of such carelessness...
...Bargain? When Fox loses its own theaters, a bigger take will be important. In rural areas, movies are now sold for flat rentals. Under the new system there will be sliding rates, with exhibitors getting a bonus when box-office receipts are big. Lichtman thinks this will encourage longer runs for good pictures, hence benefit producer as well as exhibitor...