Word: ruralization
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Home to Gene Atkins meant a wretched rural slum. His father was a sharecropper in the Hogback Mountain region, where tenant farms are rich only in ragged children, moonshine stills and Redbone hounds. The hero and his hill bride had little chance of escaping poverty. Broke, Gene Atkins was resigned to spend his $300 mustering-out pay for a stock-mule, harness, turning plow, singlefoot, geewhiz, section harrow, planter and wagon-and then sharecropping cotton on another man's land...
...favors private land ownership. By classic standards it is slightly left of center, but it comprises the right wing of the present democratic bloc, and it is nonsocialist. The S.H.P. recently gained urban strength in the Budapest municipal elections, and it was expected up to last week-to gain rural strength in the national elections...
...Tito had a measure of popular support, largely in rural areas and among Yugoslav youth. Unlike an unalloyed police state, the regime not only permitted but deviously encouraged a certain opposition. Milan Grol's critical new weekly, Demokratija, allotted newsprint despite the paper shortage, was a sellout. Said he: "Now I have both the people I want and those I don't want. Every malcontent in Yugoslavia is on my side." The result perhaps explained why Grol was allowed to operate...
...program," had charged that the Garson coalition was the "tool of big business." What Manitoba needed, he cried, was a socialist regime like Saskatchewan's. Saskatchewan's CCF Premier Thomas C. Douglas bounded over the border with four of his Cabinet ministers and stumped around rural Manitoba to spread the word...
Small Fry Coddler. He bought small bond issues of rural school districts, which no one else would touch. When lack of bids threatened the whole Golden Gate Bridge project, A.P. bought the bonds. He also coddled the small fry: any regularly employed person can borrow up to $300 on his signature alone. When the Securities and Exchange Commission objected to some of his operations, A.P. defended himself by attacking. He haled the SEC into court...