Word: urban
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clinical research in the advance towards a deeper understanding of the human body is unquestioned. During the past half century every major contribution to medicine has come from them. They can tap the best in equipment and men, and are proving the most adequate method of succoring the urban population that can pay little or nothing for medical care. The problem now before the medical profession is how to finance care for the poor in the clinics and continue their research activities...
...talents for raking up the coals. For the social chaos and loss of architectural form which overcame the city during the 18th and 19th Centuries the only excuse was the speed of industrial expansion and the colossal rise in the population of Europe. "It was a period of vast urban improvisation: makeshift piled upon makeshift. . . . Until 1838 neither Manchester nor Birmingham even functioned politically as incorporated boroughs: they were man heaps, machine-warrens, not organs of human association...
...swampy southern coast, to moonshiners in Georgia's remote northern hills, and to thousands of dry and pious Georgia fundamentalists last week came discouraging news from Atlanta. A measure to repeal Georgia's 23-year-old State prohibition law, which has been openly violated in urban localities since Repeal but has stubbornly withstood two referendums initiated by Wets, passed the State Legislature's lower house after a stormy session by 105 votes to 85, squeaked through the Senate 27 votes to 22. Henceforth, Georgia's counties may permit package sales (limited to two quarts...
...Agriculture Henry A. Wallace offered a set of statistics: "The 1937 production of 53 crops was 13% greater than the 1929 production and 40% greater than the 1936 production, which was considerably curtailed by drought. The effect of this increase in the face of declining business activity and urban purchasing power has been a sharp drop in farm prices. Since December 1936 they have shrunk from 126% of the pre-War level to 104% of the pre-War level. The present level of farm prices is approximately 30% below that of 1929." Hence, concluded Witness Wallace, U. S. farm income...
However, at night, or when one is fatigued at the end of a long drive, or along crowded highways, or in urban districts where pedestrians are likely to jump out at cars, little mindful of the dangers they are incurring, then is the time for all drivers to use every ounce of precaution. And it is often part of the make-up of youth not to slow up at such times. These are the times when good judgment is required, judgment to size up one's own physical disabilities--slower mental reactions resulting from fatigue, for instance,--and judgment...