Word: ruralization
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William M. Shepherd, 35, director of Arkansas Power & Light Co.'s rural development division, president of the U.S. Junior Chamber of Commerce...
Harry Byrd and the economy boys will be hard put to it to slash much more from these figures. The WPA and the CCC, the Rural Electrification Commission and the National Youth Administration, are all officially dead. Finding other sources for governmental economy would be a tedious task of investigating each of the Departments and Agencies in order to see whether they could save a couple of bucks by rebending unbent paper clips. Such an investigation would probably cost as much as could be saved, and would absorb valuable time and effort in charge and counter-charge inside the sweltering...
...little red schoolhouse, an institution already badly battered by the winds of modernity, last week faced a tornado. One thousand Illinois schools have closed recently because poorly paid teachers are taking war jobs. Most of the shutdowns are one-room rural schools-the 9,703 one-room schools of Illinois outnumber those of any other state...
Most states have been consolidating their rural schools...
...addition to its detailed tuning record, the Nielsen Radio Index can claim a further advantage over radio's two most successful audience surveys, the Crossley and Hooper, which get their information by telephone: the Nielsen Audimeter can tap the great rural majority of radio homes which are without telephone service. But not even the Audimeter can tell whether anyone is listening to a turned-on radio...