Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Raid on Aid. None was fatter than the $251 million depressed-areas bill locked up in the House Rules Committee for more than a year. With a magic appeal to both urban and farm areas, the Democratic bill provides for loans and grants to areas of chronic unemployment (so broadly defined, say Republicans, that New York City could qualify), to be dispensed by a U.S. Area Redevelopment Administration. Two revolving funds of $75 million each would furnish loans to spur industry in urban and rural areas; $50 million in loans would be available for construction of public facilities; direct grants...
...poverty in a land of plenty; inflation, which hurts those most who need help most; millions of our senior citizens living on pittances; millions of our young people denied full educational opportunity; millions of farm families forced ever downward toward relative and absolute poverty; millions of families living in urban and rural slums; millions of families denied the medical care and future benefits which current science and medical research can provide...
...said Dartmouth College's Physiologist Henry A. Schroeder. In fact, when he began his study, he expected to find that hard water went with hard arteries. He took off from a 1950-51 U.S. Geological Survey study of water supplies for 1,315 cities, covering 90% of the urban and 58% of the total population. The survey assigned a "hardness index" to water, found the national average was 97. Dr. Schroeder compared the states' index figures with their mortality, found no relationship with overall death rates. But he found a striking relationship with the death rates from heart...
...polio has been increasing for two years. From 2,500 cases in 1957 it went up to 3,700 in 1958 and 5,500 in 1959. Unaccountably, the disease has shifted its aim: young children, especially under two years old, are now the principal victims. They are concentrated in urban and. rural slums, among Negroes and Puerto Ricans. This is partly explained by the fact that vaccination has been most neglected in these groups. But a major paradox is that, because of living conditions, these were formerly the groups in which harmless natural infection occurred most often, making paralytic disease...
...diplomatic initiative; why we have faltered in the fight for disarmament; why we are not providing our children with education . . . why we spend billions of dollars storing surplus food when one-third of humanity goes to bed hungry . . . why millions of Americans lead blighted lives in our spreading urban slums...