Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Direct federal financing of an urban renewal program to eliminate the backlog of substandard housing in which, according to the 1960 census, a fifth of the nation dwells...
...some of the $57 billion could be diverted, retraining, urban renewal, education and public works programs could be vastly broadened in response to automation. This fact in no way disputes the logistic necessity of the current defense budget, but does suggest that the government's ability to expand the volume of job opportunities in the United States is limited by the continuing arms race. The cold war has frozen the economy by restricting the political and financial means with which the government can effectively combat unemployment...
...Idahoans' mild but persistent paranoia toward the Federal Gov. and big cities, have concerned themselves principally with the interests of the state, as opposed to the rest of the country. One of the hottest issues in the campaign was Church's vote for establishing a Cabinet Department of Urban Affairs. The Republican opponent charged that this showed how little Church cared about Idaho...
...Physical Education. Many states (Michigan, for example) have chosen to separate the "cow college" from the "university," and California has gone even further in specializing its various branches. Illinois, however, except for the medical school and a two-year undergraduate division in Chicago, mixes everything happily on the Champaign-Urban campus, a fact which was impressed upon me in my freshman year when I found my chemistry section meeting directly opposite a room whose frosted glass door proclaimed disquietingly, "Swine...
Already, moderatism and the economic interests have done a sizeable amount. The changing economy of the region has brought, along with rising productivity, increased per capita income, great increases in urban population, appreciable improvements in public education, and higher standards of health and welfare. They have, in fact, given to the average Southerner a little taste of what he thought was the grandeur of the Old South. It is in this sense that this New Reconstruction is a part of "The Eternal flame of the Confederacy." It kindles a regional pride which once more prompts the Southerner to work...