Word: urbanely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past five years the Federal Government has allocated almost $500 million for slum clearance and urban redevelopment. Now President Eisenhower has asked Congress for another $500 million. If Congress votes the money, the funds would spur a partnership program combining public and private spending for the betterment...
...write as I feel, guided by impulse and thinking of humanity," he says. "I don't think of history, posterity, fashion or politics." Villa-Lobos is breathing much urban, northern-hemisphere air these days (after his U.S. concerts he is off for a Continental tour next month), but he is still breathing deeply. At week's end he was composing furiously between concerts, is half way through his Eleventh Symphony. His total output to date: a dazzling 2,000-plus compositions...
...with only 60,000 card-carrying members, hold 26 seats in the New Delhi Parliament, have gained effective control of 800,000 trade unionists; they can paralyze India's biggest city, Calcutta, at will. In impoverished India the Communists also have excellent future prospects: the nation's urban unemployment is increasing by 500,000 a year; 15 million families are unable to make a decent living upon India's arid land. India's current rate of industrial investment is considered more than 85% behind India's grievous need...
...Utah is one state with more (633) husbands than wives. The U.S. has 1,776,681 more women than men (the reverse was true 75 years ago), 50.7 people per sq. mi. (v. 16.9 then), and its population (median age: 30.2, ten years more than in 1879) is 59% urban (v. 72% rural then...
...today's India. For the students talk about immediate reforms, when the villages actually need a far different solution. The danger is that these city students, who barely understand the villages, will eventually take over the government civil service. Then they will need to learn quickly about the non-urban 85 percent of India and to plan bold but realistic programs of village development...