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Word: urbanely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bombs were dropped over a widespread area, in both urban and rural districts. But tentative reports indicated that the raids nowhere approached blitzkrieg intensity...

Author: By United Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 3/15/1941 | See Source »

...insurance in force is held by over 64,000,000 U. S. policyholders. The largest 26 companies, through their investments, in 1937 held 11.6% of all Federal bonds, 17.4% of railroad bonds, 18.2% of utility and 11.7% of U. S. industrial bonds, 13% of urban mortgages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INSURANCE: Bomb to the Archives | 3/10/1941 | See Source »

...entertainment, their patriotism, their family life, et al.-these same provincials saw clearly ten to 15 years ago that Communism and Fascism were cut from the same pattern and that as governments both resembled Capone's rule of gangsterdom. Such ignorance and lack of discrimination pained our urban "intellectuals," but it was the latter, not the former, who were confounded when Stalin joined hands with . . . Hitler and invaded the Baltic States. Moreover, these same Americans rejected Communism with contempt, saying in effect: "I don't want no bureaucrat telling me what to do." Which statement seems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 10, 1941 | 2/10/1941 | See Source »

What went on in Charlestown was likely to happen in many another U. S. community. Unlike most other materials of war, explosives should be produced in sparsely-settled areas, can seldom make use of the surplus labor and housing of large urban centres. With an estimated 20 new explosive plants on Government books (five or six already a-building), the U. S. hoped to prevent the dreaded boom town-ghost town cycle. One solution: a Government plan to build 1,000 $2,500 homes near Radford, Va. (site of a new $35,000,000 plant to be built by Hercules...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUILDING: Ghost Towns Past & Future | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

...speaker pointed out that democracy has existed hand-in-hand with almost all economic systems from the rural and agrarian to the urban and industrial. "The democratic state is not a by-product of capitalism inseparable from it," he contended...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MERRIAM EXPLAINS NEED FOR DEMOCRATIC FAITH AVOWAL | 12/5/1940 | See Source »

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