Word: rural
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Based on the "Smolensk Archive" which fell into German hands during World War II, the book gives a vivid picture of the lives of the people in government, industry, farming, education, and other occupations in one rural province of Russia from...
...first time, Dwight Eisenhower stood on the edge of a congressional defeat. At issue was S. 144, the relatively trivial Rural Electrification Administration bill, which would transfer power to approve or reject REA loans from Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson to power-hungry Clyde Ellis, director of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association. To farm-state representatives of both parties the bill was alluring; Ellis for weeks had been bringing his regional managers into Washington to buttonhole Congressmen. As drafted by Benson-hating Senator Hubert Humphrey, moreover, S. 144 was a direct slap at the bedeviled Agriculture Secretary and, indirectly...
Without waiting for the official veto message to reach the Capitol, Halleck and his whip, Illinois' Les Arends, had gone to work. All weekend they pestered and pressured their reluctant colleagues in the teeth of immense home-front opposition. Telephones buzzed and wires poured in from rural constituencies, urging passage of the bill. Worried Republicans from farm districts pleaded that a nay vote would be political harakiri, but Halleck sternly told them that it was a case of Ike or REA's Ellis-take your choice...
Useless Pig Iron. At Wuhan last December, the Central Committee of the party had to recognize that 1) the frenzied bombardment of Quemoy had failed to shake the nerve of either Formosa or the U.S., and 2) the ruthless jamming of peasants into rural communes had disorganized the nation. Ships lay for as much as two weeks at Shanghai docks awaiting loading and unloading. Textile mills lacked raw material; exports fell off; production was declining everywhere. Thousands of tons of pig iron were turned out by backyard furnaces but then proved useless without further costly refining; there was not enough...
...children in the play lend some disturbing elements--they were often self-consciously cute and occasionally betrayed sophisticated accents which grated against the rural informality of the play. But otherwise, from the alcoholic organist to the milkman, there was little that seemed out of the Grovers Corners "ordinary...