Word: ruralization
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...Kittredges all these problems were connected. They were alarmed to discover in rural Pendleton the same forces of darkness (chiefly businessmen, bankers and local newspaper publishers) that were defeating men of good will in Europe. The class struggle went on even in the haunts of coot and hern, and what was worse, very few of the local coots seemed to care...
...power section had been trying for six months to get power lines into a plant abuilding at Lake Catherine, Ark., which will turn out 65,000 tons of aluminum a year. Nelson told his man Cliff Hill to get it done. That afternoon the order went out to the Rural Electrification Administration, while private power men and Congressmen squawked...
...Most alarming news was of an accelerating shortage of teachers. By next year, it was predicted, U.S. rural schools may lose half of their instructors to better-paid jobs. Probable results: 1) hiring of incompetent teachers; 2) consolidation of many one-room schools. The convention urged salary increases for teachers...
...continual stream of distinguished visitors, shook a gentle fist at Bohemia and the big cities, and preached the gospel of U.S. regionalism and the Iowa soil. More than any other U.S. painter, he had expressed the unashamed simplicity and dignified realism that lay behind the complacent, materialistic exterior of rural Midwestern life. Other painters might see and paint again the plain, practical beauty of the Iowa landscape. But Grant Wood had discovered...
...late Joseph Pickett, a New Hope, Pa. country-fair concessionaire and shooting-gallery impresario, who specialized in toylike rural landscapes...