Word: ruralization
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...this is a sample of the sort of answers to complicated problems this fellow Rural has up his sleeve, why wouldn't it be a good idea to install him permanently in Washington? Perhaps the rubber, gasoline and inflation problems have simple answers too, if the right man starts after them...
Last week TIME published a picture and story describing what the U.S. Army said was a plot by a rural fifth column to point out military objectives to enemy bombers by means of cunningly contrived ground markers. TIME erred. So did some 1,900 U.S. newspapers which accepted the story in good faith from Army press-relations officers. The story, though not a deliberate fake, revealed a fantastic miscarriage of information among Army airmen, brass hats and FBI. The facts...
...north-county rural chamber, amid frowning portraits of side-whiskered yeoman justices, eleven U.S. officers sat in judgment. Private Hammond testified nervously, lolling back cross-legged in an upholstered chair. He and the girl agreed they had picked each other up, had drunk beers and wine in pubs, had sought the privacy of a bomb shelter together, had kissed. The girl insisted she had screamed, slapped, scratched. But she admitted that when it was over she had wiped his face with his handkerchief...
...Under the Rural plan, a withholding tax on next year's incomes (which almost everyone agrees is a good idea) would not bump into the hideous fact that most U.S. taxpayers would also be struggling to pay taxes on 1942 income...
...young nation agreed with them. Its art was best and most beautiful in all that was most immediately useful to a rural civilization. The work of men's hands became "a common language of hand and eye," with marked divergences of idiom-the New Englander's "downright pleasure in stripped forms and beautifully finished plain surfaces," the more complex art of figurehead carving, the decorative designs of the Pennsylvania Germans which (derived from the manuscript paintings of medieval monasteries) gave expression to "all the great ceremonial relationships...