Word: urbanely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...farmers "grew much of their own food" clearly shows that TIME [Oct. 3] is at least 20 years behind the times ... in expressing the moldy urban view that farm people need hardly any cash income because they are practically self-sufficient . . . Today's farmers tend to produce one main item, sometimes two or three, but no more. They buy the rest with money, and their money buys no more than anyone else...
Invited by the National Association of Home Builders, the Russians arrived in Washington for a 30-day tour of 13 cities to study U.S. methods. Their chief: hearty but acid I. K. Kozuilia, boss of all urban construction in the U.S.S.R. Their manner: inquisitive skepticism, caused partly by apparent unwillingness to be as folksy as the Russian farm group, partly by what they...
...stated, however, that the Democratic Party must continue to place its leadership in the hands of liberals of integrity, such as Adlai Stevenson. He listed the following four factors for the party to concentrate on: 1) to develop an enlightened liberal leadership in the South, 2) to make its urban machines free from scandal, 3) to raise money without selling out to "big cats," and 4) to keep the support of the racial minorities and labor groups...
...farm trade, then into air conditioners, refrigerators and home freezers, had discovered that it faced a choice. To survive in the cutthroat refrigeration line, it would have to change its operation radically, put in a complete set of appliances, expand out of the familiar farm market into the big urban markets, recruit a huge new dealer organization, then fight for a tremendous volume to make a profit. Said President McCaffrey: "We felt we'd rather take our efforts and our capital and invest them in things that are more nearly related to our main activity...
Clothing is adequate, but nothing more. The houses are very simply furnished, with one stove supplying heat and providing space for cooking. The Russian peasant probably has a better diet than the urban worker. Each member of a collective farm has a small plot ranging in size from 0.6 to 1.5 acres. More than half the milk, fruits and vegetables of the Soviet Union is produced on these small plots...