Word: urbanizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yellow Fever has been wiped off urban portions of the Western Hemisphere since 1927, but still exists as "jungle yellow fever" in the interior of South America, the interior of Africa, as far east as the Sudan. An excellent vaccine has been developed against the disease, but the Army is worried that the disease may spread among civilians...
...assessments (about $72,800 a year) was loaded on the remaining six members (Times, News, World-Telegram, Sun, Journal-American, A.P.). These six could neither agree to pay this extra nor to accept less service. Associated Press announced that it would take over City New's tricky urban coverage, adding 29 of its 67 reporters to A.P.'s own local staff...
...pledge] a family garden on every farm. . . . Conserve the year's food needs of the family. ... By preserving our own food we undertake to release the commercial pack for urban people, Red Cross needs and our allies overseas...
Behind the stiff regulations the network men warily suspected a tough New Dealer's dislike of their urban glamor. They sensed a desire to break them down in favor of regional networks. And they thought they sensed something much more dangerous. If the stories they told were true, FCC's Chairman Fly wanted to reform not only their business methods but their programs...
...civilian life, too, one of the most destructive commentaries on our boast of equal opportunity has been the lack of doctors and medical facilities for the greater part of our population. It has been shown that our much-publicized surplus of doctors in urban centers could not begin to take care of those in need of treatment. When to all this we add the consideration that wartime rationing and privation invariably result in a lowering of the public health and often result in plagues, the picture is not made prettier...