Word: urbanely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...urban picture is bright. City parishes have large middle-class congregations, are financially independent, conduct up-to-date schools, carry on extensive social and recreational work. In the rural sections the picture is less heartening...
...production, the discovery and development of substitutes, new raw materials, new processes and new products will offer a great stimulus to the postwar economy. On the basis of this technological development plus the accumulated shortages in housing, accumulated deficiencies in the ordinary type of public works especially in urban communities, shortages in durable consumers' goods; and in plant and equipment for civilian industry, there is the basis for postwar prosperity. A balancing and stabilizing fiscal and monetary policy is necessary to forestall turbulent and speculative tendencies...
These developmental projects include urban redevelopment; express highways through and around our metropolitan centers; reorganization and rebuilding of our terminal facilities; the development of our largely undeveloped river valleys, including hydroelectric power, reforestation, soil conservation, flood control, irrigation projects, sewage disposal projects, and cleaning up of polluted rivers...
...timers on the Harvard scene are, by now, accustomed to new ways of doing things. Those who remember the days when gas flowed freely, and trips to near-by Wellesley were frequent, now see a great increase in the use of urban transit facilities...
...peace must be thoughtful, the conditions wise, and Japan's vitality and insistence be constantly in our minds." Here those who are familiar with Japan will think of one great lack in Dr. Eckstein's book. His acquaintance with the Japanese is largely confined to the urban middle and upper classes. Of the tremendous proletariat he knows and says little. Yet it is in these masses, if they are helped to liberal education, that the best hope probably lies. Readers who wish to learn something of what Dr. Eckstein, for all his great usefulness, is not equipped...