Word: ruralization
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...schoolteacher, 27 years old, of the common financial means type. I live in a rural section of the country and has seen enough of my countrymen to make my assertions here authentic...
...China needs trained organizers of cooperatives, she asks the University of Nanking for them, and gets them. If China needs medical supplies, she asks West China Union University to find them in the plants and chemicals of Szechwan, and she gets them. If China needs scientific experimentalists in rural reconstruction, she asks Yenching for them, and gets them...
George Washington Slept Here (by George S. Kaufman & Moss Hart, produced by Sam H. Harris). One of the high comic themes of American life concerns the nervous city people who want to get back to the soil-but not so far back as to avoid rural electrification. To this thesis Kaufman & Hart now devote their practiced wits. Ernest Truex plays the part of a little man who buys a Pennsylvania farm where Washington supposedly bedded (actually it turns out to have been Benedict Arnold). The acid Jean Dixon is his wife, forced among other pastoral ordeals to watch a well...
Last week, at rural Huntsville, near Houston, 25,000 rodeo fans saw a roundup unique even in Texas. Started ten years ago to give the inmates of the old, grey prison more recreation, the Texas Prison Rodeo brings out such crowds that it has to be held on four successive Sundays. Two to three thousand spectators are often turned away...
Year ago, hired by the U. S. Rural Electrification Administration, Documentarian Ivens marched his crew onto the small dairy and crop farm of lean, leathery William Parkinson in the rolling hills of eastern Ohio. Purpose: to show the rich rewards brought to the Parkinsons by the Federal Government's rural-electrification program. During the first half of Ivens' casual 36-minute report, the Parkinsons plod through their chores with such outmoded equipment as kerosene lamps, a wood-burning stove, a backyard privy, an old hand pump to the water well. One day the farmers are told about...