Word: rurals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...serious: conspiracy in restraint of trade. The New York Chain Milk Association was the name of Larry Fay's milk game. He was president, vice president, secretary and treasurer. His big-muscled "adjusters" persuaded loose milk dealers to join his association by methods not always gentle. As in rural farm cooperatives "dues" were levied upon all members. According to the city health authorities, Treasurer Fay's collections ran up to $800,000 per year. Yet he complained: "All I get out of this racket is $500 a week. It is not enough for all this worry. Besides...
...ready for immediate action. In Vienna he suppressed an edition of the Communist newspaper Rote Fahne, arrested its editor "for inciting troops to mutiny against the new government." In the country he sent bus loads of soldiers careening over dusty roads to remove guns and munitions from rural arsenals lest they be seized by rioters. Only then did he sit down, wipe his pink brow, and rest. He needed the rest. Worried friends last week reminded each other that for many years Policeman Schober's heart has been none too strong...
...work. Between them they divide up nearly all government offices. The prince whose small body was last week anointed for the grave had most efficiently conducted the Siamese Ministry of Health before he took up medical studies. Only recently the king on a visit to princes in northern rural Siam had admonished his relatives as follows...
...They reported that recently for the first time in history the village council had had to appropriate ($500) for prohibition enforcement, that malt and hops were on sale, that the students of Otterbein College, Westerville's seat of learning, could tell of at least two Columbus bootleggers "with a rural trade" who visit Westerville regularly...
...city can hold a nine months school each year while the average for the rural district is seven. There is 7.7% illiteracy in rural districts and 4.4 in the city. The difference in health defects is startling. Eye defects: rural 23%, city 12. Defective teeth: rural 48%, city 33. Only 25.7% of the rural children 15 to 18 years of age are in high school as compared with 71.1% in the city...