Word: ruralization
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...Such a poll was taken last August by The American Press (trade journal for publishers of weekly newspapers). It showed rural weeklies' editors 63% for Willkie (about 6,449 papers to 3,725 for Roosevelt...
Farms. Wendell Willkie pledged himself to maintain 1) soil conservation; 2) commodity loans ("despite some inherent dangers"); 3) rural electrification; 4) farm credit; 5) crop insurance. Above all he stressed the argument that increased payrolls for industrial workers would mean an increased consumption of the farmer's produce...
...maintain the Wagner Labor Relations Act and the Wage-Hour law; to expand the Social Security Act; to give a place in the Cabinet to the Northwest; to continue soil conservation, commodity loans, rural electrification, farm credit, crop insurance; call a national conference of farm, labor and industry to plan national prosperity; to revise and make more equitable the tax laws; to maintain for the people the gains made toward public power; to provide jobs for every man & woman in the U. S. willing to work; to continue giving relief to all who cannot find work...
...folksy, gee-whiz comments for Sun Oil Co. five times a week to an estimated audience of 10,000,000. Al though he has turned 48, he is just as relentlessly enthusiastic now as when he began, still rates with the Sears, Roebuck catalogue as an indispensable in the rural areas, where his following is greatest...
...like a clean wind. It is a simple play about simple people with all the home-grown philosophy that is bound to blossom in Ulster. But St. John Ervine has put no haloes around his country folk; no sickening sentimentality. Instead, in the clash of old and new in rural Ireland Ervine has found the same problems which thrive in the largest city. And far from being "small townish," his characters are all the more interesting for being so much a part of the world...