Word: rurals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Horace Mann Towner, governor of the island, hurriedly cabled the War Department: "Full relief and reconstruction will probably reach into millions." Refugees from the rural districts poured into San Juan. Food prices skyrocketed. Eight representative islanders. watching three days pass in aimless water-soaked turmoil, wrote to the governor. "For 72 hours," they stated, "more than 300.000 people of this island, to estimate conservatively, have had little or nothing to eat and they will have nothing to eat for at least another week unless immediate and drastic action is taken. . . . Disease and famine are already here." They urged four relief...
Nebraska, South Dakota. Two tornadoes struck rural districts of Nebraska and South Dakota. Eleven were killed, among them Schoolmistress Rooney, who was tossed 300 feet. Estimated property damage...
...Nominee Smith on the above itinerary went a mass of literature, sent out by the G. 0. P., to show that he had never been regarded by the New York farmers as an especial friend. The chief document was a map showing that, of New York's 57 rural counties (outside New York City) Governor Smith carried only two the first time he was elected, 13 the second time, one the third time, four the fourth time. New York City ("Tammany") was the only area he carried all four times...
...finest motor car smashups in all the World happen at little crossroads in rural France. For one thing there are no speed laws and barely any traffic. Why then drop below 100 kilometers per hour (62 m. p. h.), just because the perfect road down which one is whizzing must soon cross another? Sacre bleu! If one is a French chauffeur, and if one has waited in the sun all morning at the wheel of a Bugatti or a Farman* then what joy, what exhilaration, when one's fat Spanish employer and a couple of his "little girls" scramble...
...Editor Thompson report on Oct. 1, how many TIME readers exhibited interest in The Rural Digest...