Word: ruralization
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...hesitancy-from sellers & buyers alike-in flouting the laws. In the South and Southwest it was lumber-running-on the highways outside San Antonio and Austin, Tex., there is lively bidding each night at $1,200 for big truckloads of lumber worth $720 at ceiling prices. In almost every rural area, war veterans with priorities bought new tractors, sold them back of'the barn at $500 profit. In Florida, cement building blocks (ceiling 17?) had a current black-market price...
...polls opened early in rural Bavaria last Sunday, but not until after Mass did heavy balloting get under way. Then men in knee-length leather breeches and green felt hats, women in full black skirts and colorful blouses, strolled from the churches to the booths, voted the strongly clerical Christian Social Union top dog in the County Councils, in first returns gave 674,143 votes to 216,950 for the Social Democrats, 34,695 for the Communists and 34,142 for all others...
...rural retreat we have time to mull over our contacts with French people of all casts and classes, and to ponder over the events which are plunging our unfortunate country in the depths of despair. We wonder that no one has come forward to say that if the Government of France is poor and reduced to expedients, it is because the war-weary people have lost confidence and interest. Though they sadly need the aid that the U.S. might proffer, they know that it is not reasonable of such a government to ask it. But we feel certain that...
...last week, as the bulldozers kept on snorting, the Earl had had enough. Off he went to London to protest in person to Clement Attlee. Solidly behind him was the Council for the Preservation of Rural England. In Wentworth village pubs the local tenantry shook their heads. Even the Yorkshire coal miners, led by union president Joseph Hall, voiced their objections. Said the Manchester Guardian approvingly: "The people of the north were deprived of space, light and beauty by the ravages of the industrial revolution ... it is evident that the miners attach a real value to the preservation...
Smathers' old friend Dr. Warren H. Wilson of the Presbyterian, U.S.A. Unit of Rural Church Work helped with the project. Big Lick's 50 families supplied labor. Smathers was the foreman. Said a grizzled Big Lick farmer last week: "That feller did it all. I seen him a-standin' out there in the sun, day after day, takin' holt of the building." By the time the church was built, the people of Big Lick and their pastor had built more than a church. They had welded themselves into a Christian community...