Word: ruralization
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Sprawling, spawning, polyglot India is a tough territory for radio. Its 352,837,778 inhabitants, 89% of them rural, speak some 225 languages and assorted dialects of each. No receiving sets are manufactured in India, and a 50% duty makes their import prohibitive. Finally, electric power is scarce and only battery sets can be generally used...
...tribal funds held in trust the Government spent 93% on "administrative costs." Every stratagem was worked to acquire for white use key lands along watercourses without which the surrounding territory was useless. In 1887 Indians held 139,000,000 acres, in 1933 47,000,000, much of it arid. Rural slums grew (and persist) near the agencies, where Government rations float the Indians just above starvation. As for the rich "oil royalty" Indians (Tixier's Osages) they amount to less than "one per cent of a people thousands of whom would look upon a hundred dollars a year...
...polled high in the rural sections and in his home town, Gary, but the votes of neighboring communities brought about his defeat...
...bought the Farm Journal (circulation, about 1,000,000), later merged it with The Farmer's Wife, pumped it full of Republicanism to recall the rural vote to its senses...
Urged by Dean Chen, the Chinese Government as a partial remedy moved to revive rural China's ancient festival days, last week stuck a batch of these into its New Style Calendar. Next chieh-chi (traditional festival) will be Li Hsia (Summer Commences) on May 6. The festivities: "Finding out weights of family members. Eating of beans...