Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Manhattan harbors every known species of urban insect-and many of their country cousins. The battle against them costs $5,000,000 a year in labor alone, many millions more for weapons. Three-quarters of the city's business buildings and apartment houses are constantly sprayed and fumigated...
...HELENE URBAN...
...east coast, to Perth out west is 2,400 miles. Just the fringes of Australia are inhabited; the southeast, particularly, and a little around Perth on the west coast (big-timber country) and at Darwin up north in the tropics, then down the east coast to Brisbane where urban living starts again...
...TIME (Feb. 28), FARMS. It is fascinating to know that we made a 65% profit ratio in 1943, especially when I have no figures to dispute you with. However, what really makes me sizzle is your typical urban viewpoint toward farmers, as revealed in the following: "For their produce farmers collected about 20% more than they charged in 1942." Since when did we start charging? I sell about three cases of eggs a week...
...thin, weather-beaten, unlettered farmer grubbing a living for his brood from 200 unproductive acres near Callander, Ont. He still farms the same soil (hay, oats, cattle), but only in a supervisory way. He wears neat business suits, has filled out, looks more urban than rustic. He is assertive now, aware of his responsibilities, no longer thrown off balance by publicity and whoop...