Word: ruralization
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Source material was abandoned when Hollywood set out to put "Tobacco Road" on celluloid. Gone entirely is the sociological message about hillbilly living conditions which has sent many metropolitan and rural audiences home with rotating intestines and a sincere wish that no one had even brought up the matter. Gone also, under Will Hays edict, is the spice which helped the play to an eight-year run on Broadway. What appears on the screen, shrouding fine performances by Charlie Grapewin and Gene Tierney as Jeeter and Ellie May, is a comical but altogether slapstick movie in the best Mack Sennet...
...German Department's personality kid was born thirty-four years ago in the rural outskirts of Norwich, Connecticut. He spent a delightful childhood playing among the railroad ties and stealing apples, and at an early age impressed his teachers with his wisdom and precocity. After class hours the bare-footed lad would work his way into a circus by watering the elephants, or would pensively watch the village blacksmith as he laid the foundations of the Weltanschung which he later passed to his students. His chief ambition at this time was to run around like his older brother, who belonged...
...example, are most prevalent in slums. Teeth may be weakened by a deficiency of minerals and vitamins, years of neglect. The majority of men rejected by the Army have not been under the care of a physician. Free medical care is almost unobtainable in many small towns and rural communities. Even in New York City there are few free clinics for dental care...
...this expansion, bouquets go to 31-year-old millionaire-socialite Richard Chichester du Pont, onetime champion glider pilot. Talked about since a piano-wired Bleriot monoplane officially hauled the first sack of mail in 1911, rural air mail was just talk until handsome young Du Pont got the bright idea that overcame the two big obstacles to small-town air mail: expense of landing fields, loss of time and money making stops. Du Font's idea: land only when necessary, otherwise swoop low over clearings at 100 m.p.h., simultaneously drop incoming mail, pick up outgoing letters and packages...
Professor Buck pointed out that in spite of all the obstacles in his way the Negro has made notable progress in recent years. For instance, he has become a better farmer; he has purchased more homes; he has becomes more of an asset both in urban and rural communities; he has improved his schools and colleges...