Word: urbanely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Islands' government is in trouble. Inflation, resulting from unwise spending of American payments, has reduced the real income of rural and urban workers. They are becoming restive. As the Hukbalahap revolt became stronger, sudden military expenses drained the treasury...
Since many of the referenda are very controversial, politicians expect an unusually large off-year vote. While a big vote normally helps the Democratic party, that may not be the case this year. Some of the most important questions affect residents of non-urban areas which are heavily Republican...
Last week Tito's Yugoslavia went egalitarian. A government decree, effective Nov. 1, closes all special food stores that serve party members and officials. Urban Yugoslav Communists will have to carry ration cards like other city dwellers. Special rest homes and resorts for the elect will be closed. Government agencies are forbidden to buy carpets, curtains, pictures and other items of interior decoration. After Nov. 1, nobody will be able to get free gasoline...
Thus, the Democrats, who count heavily on urban votes, have a ticket top heavy with Irish Catholics. The Republican slate, on the other hand, has a great many Protestants with English names--who live largely in surburban and rural districts...
...urban dream of a little place in the country, the New York Times found in a survey, has been replaced by a more urgent "nightmare of atom bombs falling on cities." The nightmare, encouraged by real-estate promoters and advertising copywriters, has increased sales of rural properties-estates, farms, stores and other small businesses 50 miles or more from big cities-by as much...