Word: urbanizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reported that rural crimes are on the increase (up 7.5% over 1946), urban crimes on the decrease (down 2.3%). In rural areas, rape cases alone jumped 13.6% in the first six months of 1947. As of April 30, the U.S. had 1.75 cops for every 1,000 inhabitants, an increase...
...invitation to students (TIME, Sept. i). Last week he sounded off on the recruiting of beefy backs and linemen to do or die (at a price) on the football field, a subject which makes most college presidents look the other way. Taylor invited the presidents of 14 other urban colleges and universities to join the University of Louisville in an out-&-out professional football league...
Terror & Grain. Groza acted. From every hamlet, every urban neighborhood, one, two, three people disappeared. Many of them had nothing to do with politics, but fear inhibits opposition. Next, opposing leadership was wiped out. Top officials of Maniu's National Peasant Party were jailed for plotting to overthrow Groza. To prove how guilty they were, newspapers printed an official photograph which showed twelve of the accused, with two pilots and piles of baggage, "preparing to flee" in a rickety old single-engined, three-place biplane...
...evil-smelling darkness of the Victory Theater on Washington Street, a well-balanced program is being shown these days. While one picture demonstrates graphically the dangers of Ceylon rural life, the other is equally disenchanting about our own urban civilization. But for the man who does not give a hang for the sociological view, and merely wants to be entertained, both features are the nuts...
South Dakota. The church is the possessor of great parcels of urban real estate and, as one of the West's prime financial institutions, owns the Utah State National Bank, Zion's Savings Bank & Trust Co. and the Beneficial Life Insurance...