Word: urbanizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crimson readers show cosmopolitan urban characteristics in placing the New Yorker in number one slot as the most popular magazine on the stands, with Life and Time also selling out every week. Newsweek and the various digests are poor sellers; among the coolly received latter class, however, DeWitt Wallace's Pleasantville, New York, publication ranks first...
...high pay of factories and the luxuries of city life had swollen the drift from the land into a steady tide. Even Quebec, against the ancient tradition of living on the land, was turning disturbingly urban, and the Catholic Church was deeply concerned. Last week, in a pastoral letter signed by Cardinal Villeneuve, three archbishops and 14 bishops, the Church raised its powerful voice in a plea : go back to the land. The Church wanted to stop not only the movement to the cities but emigration...
Whither Younger Sons? How much heed the young men of Quebec would give to the plea was questionable. Once predominantly rural, Quebec is now (next to Ontario) the most urban province.* Almost 95% of its 155,000 farmers own their farms. But they cannot afford to buy new land in established areas for their many sons because 1) land prices have risen and 2) mechanization requires larger and thus more costly farms. Hence some 180,000 unmarried sons between 15 and 30 are currently wondering where to farm or whether to farm at all. Many will wind up in city...
...census: rural, 1,222,198;urban...
...hard work as well as hard cash from the rich among his parishioners,* startled ecclesiastical mossbacks by organizing a trade school, sewing school, boys' club, men's club and summer camps under church auspices. Young clergymen coveted appointments as his assistants to learn this new technique of urban church-with-community-center. St. George's set a popular pattern...