Word: rural
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...crop experts tell them how much they may grow (if they want Government supports) and economists decide how much they can collect for their crops. Its hydrologists help them outwit the weather; its Federal Crop Insurance Corp. protects them from loss if the weather wins. The Department's Rural Electrification Administration has brought electricity to more than 3,000,000 rural consumers; the Farmers Home Administration's 8,000,000 loans have helped 2,000,000 farm families. On a 12,000-acre research center at Beltsville, Md., department scientists tamper with Nature herself. They produce apples that...
...tung Is Missing. The political development of the republic lags notably behind its military and economic progress. Understanding of democracy comes slowly to a tradition-bound, largely rural people with a background of centuries of absolute rule...
...Among the winners: Milton Bee Wise, 20, a Kentucky mountaineer who will study animal husbandry at North Carolina State, take his knowledge back to fellow farmers at home; Delfino Varela, 23, a Spanish-American who wants to study community rehabilitation at U.C.L.A. and plans to use his training in rural New Mexico; Van Sizar Allen, 24, a Mississippi Negro who will start graduate biology studies at Woods Hole, Mass, this summer; Peter Tali Coleman, 30, a Samoan who plans to take a law degree at Georgetown University, then return to Samoa as a lawyer; and Edward P. Dozier...
...Globe-Democrat (circ. 293,404). By last week, Blanton's nostalgic, witty and folk-wise column was bringing in more reader mail than almost any other Globe-Democrat department. This new success did not surprise Jack Blanton. Says he: "City people, down underneath, are just like rural folks. You run a Tom, Dick and Harry paper, like I have for 60 years, and you begin to see it's the warm and simple things make the news people hunger for most...
...Blanton begins each Globe-Democrat column. Then, taking his readers by the hand, he roams through the green gardens (and occasionally down the primrose paths) of his remarkably precise memory of Paris and northeastern Missouri in the good old days. In successive columns, Blanton revisited his one-room rural schoolhouse (the teachers are better-schooled, nowadays), his aunt's funeral (no flowers, but plenty of lugubrious singing), a riotous Democratic political rally (music by Barney's Band, composed exclusively of Republicans) and a bucket-brigade fire...