Word: rural
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...test system would produce an "intellectual elite" in the colleges, and thus is undemocratic. And, of course, the test itself is not so much one of intelligence as it is of education and background. Thus, some groups would definitely be discriminated against--Negroes, low income groups, people in backward rural areas...
...Islands' government is in trouble. Inflation, resulting from unwise spending of American payments, has reduced the real income of rural and urban workers. They are becoming restive. As the Hukbalahap revolt became stronger, sudden military expenses drained the treasury...
Providing adult adduction in farm areas and working with local 4-H clubs, the Extension Service advises on farm and rural problems through its staffs of district leaders and country agents. A corps of state specialists in the different phases of agriculture and home management introduce and demonstrate the latest techniques developed in the Service's farm laboratories...
...most important issue of these is question number five. If a majority of voters cheek "yes," Massachusetts will get a flat statewide rate for its compulsory automobile insurance. At present the state is divided into zones, with the highest rates in heavily populated sections and lower costs in rural districts. Thus, strong Republican districts--Cape Cod, for example-- must defend their low rates at the polls or suffer an increase next year...
...years Dewey has kept dissident Republican politicians in check with the threat that "he would soon be in the White House." The 1948 election exploded that myth for everyone except Dewey's closest advisers. If enough rural Republicans in northern New York stay away from the polls or refuse to vote for Dewey because of his "dictatorial" rule of the state, the governor may not have a large enough majority to overcome Lynch's Democratic sweep of New York City...