Word: ruralization
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...remodeled chicken houses on the country estate of Cinemagnate Adolph Zukor, the North Clarkstown (N.Y.) artists and writers colony has operated the most deluxe civilian-defense "depot" in rural America. There, one recent night, lofty Playwright Maxwell Anderson dutifully watched for enemy planes, patiently waited for alarms, idly surveyed stocks of tools, food and medicine...
Generally, rural areas seem to be harder hit than cities. Last week the disease jumped geographically and appeared in Chicago and New Haven...
...Pickup and delivery service of mail and express by planes that swoop low over rural airports would be extended some 55,000 miles...
Something Rare. Even without talent, Miss Bergman would bring something rare to U.S. films. To cite one single asset which is hers almost exclusively, her photographed flesh looks neither like a Crane fixtures ad nor sponge rubber nor the combined efforts of a fashionable portraitist and a rural mortician; it looks like flesh. Many people, since life must go on, find this attractive, even when it surprises them to see it on the screen. The same thing goes for her poise, sincerity, reticence, sensitiveness and charm...
Nevertheless Davis believes that the future growth of Protestantism in Brazil lies in the vast untouched rural areas. But, says he, "the urban type of church" will fail there. In backwoods Brazil, says Davis, "people are . . . illiterate, in debt, undernourished, suffering from endemic and parasitic diseases, ignorant of the first principles of hygiene, sanitation, balanced diet, baby care. . . . Homes are bare hovels, crops are blighted by cutworms, and animals are decimated with tuberculosis. . . . When the theological seminaries of Brazil recognize this . . . by including in their curricula courses of rural economics, rural sociology, public health, diet and nutrition, youth activities, handcrafts...