Word: ruralization
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...Republican primary the choice lies between a 57-year-old bachelor, Wellington D. Rankin (brother of pacifist Congresswoman Jeannette Rankin) and Jew-baiting, Fascist-minded ex-Congressman Jacob Thorkelson. Ignored by Montana's larger city newspapers, Jakie Thorkelson has conducted a busy rural campaign. His "issue": international bankers. All signs pointed to Rankin's nomination...
...money are being diverted from the schools, rapidly. U.S. Education Commissioner John Ward Studebaker reported that the nation faces a shortage of 50,000 teachers-and the probable closing of many rural schools in the coming year...
Once he sat in a "fine, decent pub, the type found only in rural England, run by a nice middle-aged woman and her two daughters." It was three miles from an airport where some of the R.A.F. night fighters were stationed. One "lad named Terry, who was like a character out of a book" described just what he would of do to Nazi troop planes if they ever tried to invade England...
Thomas E. Dewey, New York's onetime racket-buster, was the gubernatorial candidate of the Old Guard. Alf Landon had a man checking in with the rural vote upstate to see if all was safe for Dewey. Herbert Hoover spent much time in New York, to be on hand to counsel...
Mass resistance in Occupied China through substitution of subsistence for cash crops by the rural population has bitterly disappointed the Japanese military. In Free China, however, agriculture has prospered. Crop yields have increased 30 per cent, and cooperative societies have sprung up with 8,000,000 members. Villages that used to consider the semi-monthly slaughter of a pig an event now slaughter them daily...