Word: rural
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...electrial plant at Mariel in Havana province has just been opened. Next spring two cement plants will begin operation. The opening of these cement plants, which the Cubans say will meet all their requirements, is crucial. For when cement production rises, serious work on the appalling shortage of decent rural housing can begin in earnest...
...have seen an "opening up of political process" in Vietnam, Huntington says. The September 3 election, in which the winning Thieu-Ky ticket received 35 per cent of the votes, was "very beneficial" in increasing national political consciousness, which Huntington found to exist in a high degree even in rural areas...
...district has been turning its sludge into fertilizer, but the manure demand is declining and this is a losing business to the tune of $45 a ton. And a system of underwater burning which will be installed soon is hideously expensive. The district is buying up farmlands in rural Illinois where they may ship the sludge as land fill, though some trustees think that even talking about this kind of solution frightens residents and makes the problem worse...
Before her tour ended, the chairman of the President's Commission on Rural Poverty, Kentucky Governor Edward T. Breathitt, had announced in New York that this group is preparing a report on ways to make rural areas and small towns attractive enough to reduce the annual exodus of some 600,000 Americans to the cities...
Lady Bird's carefully selected sampling of the joys of rural life may be atypical of life in most crossroads communities around the country. Even so, 200 small towns have disappeared in the past 20 years, and they will almost certainly be depopulated at an even greater rate for years to come. If Lady Bird had no instant panacea for the vanishing America, she at least gave it a heart-plucking epitaph: "Here lies fresh air, a place to play, friendly neighbors. It was great while it lasted...