Word: ruralization
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East Salinas is better established than most migrant-built towns, because Salinas packing sheds provide steadier work. Californians do not like to talk about migrants successfully absorbed into California life, for fear of attracting more migrants. Social workers worry about the danger that Little Oklahomas may become "rural slums." But they note that health statistics are normal, juvenile delinquency shows no upping in Little Oklahomas, that such towns are "teeming with hopeful life...
Seventy-five per cent of the plants are situated in rural areas, but lockermen have their eyes on the big city markets. They say, for example, that housewives can save $100 on the annual meat bill of a family of five by buying a side of beef wholesale at a little better than half the retail price and having a locker plant's butcher cut and freeze it. Apostle of this drive to invade the cities is stumpy, chipper, leather-lunged Alfred Michael Reilly, Baker's Chicago sales engineer, who has peddled ice machinery for 27 years. Weekly...
Book One is a sort of muted epic on those tricks of sharp rural trading which become the legendary material of country store gossips. It tells how cold Flem Snopes, a tenant farmer's son, gains complete power over Will Varner, who virtually owns the town. Other Snopeses turn up on the horizon...
...July 1939 the House authorized an investigation of NLRB, to be led by Virginia's Howard W. Smith, an oldfashioned, seldom-spoken Democrat whose district is rural except for about 2,000 Alexandria railroadmen who always vote against him anyway, if they have an alternative. "Judge" Smith's country-lawyer shrewdness was underrated only by New Dealers, who laughed at his wing collar, ribboned pince-nez and air of extreme, Coolidge-like caution...
...Windless Cabins" does not deal, like "The Transients," with characters who are in any sense not of this world. Rural New England is again the scene, but Ray, the hero, is an attendant at a group of tourist cabins, white Lucy, the heroine, is an unhappy girl who lives nearby with an aunt whom she tries not to hate. To these people come first the shared experience of love, and later the problem of murder. A sleek and unctuons traveler tries in procuring him a girl, and then makes advances to Lucy. Ray unintentionally kills him, hides the body...