Word: ruralization
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They did not smirk because Sears, Roebuck (1939 sales: about 23% over 1938) and Montgomery Ward (1939 sales: about 15% over 1938) were reported holding nearly the same margin over 1939, although both announced higher prices for the spring. Nor because January retail grocery sales, best in rural areas, were running 5% ahead of 1939. Nor because retail auto sales declined less than half as much as is "normal" in January, kept 26.6% ahead...
January in rural Mississippi is a betwixt-&-between month. Fields are bare of last year's cotton; plowing for the next crop has not yet begun. Men and boys old enough to be out of school have plenty of time to "go to the store" or into town, and not much to do when they get there. Even in the southern counties, winds blow chill across the fields. At a crossroad store ("GROCERIES, HARDWARE & GEN'L MERCHANDISE"), the stove is hot, the air laden with the smells of harness leather, coal oil, turpentine, of bodies white and black...
...best of the book is its first half: a bleak, sharp-eyed, sensitive account of what the world was like to a boy on a cruelly poor east-Kansas farm after the Civil War. In those pages George Ogden does a job on U. S. rural life such as many U. S. writers have tried and as few, living or dead, could improve on. At its best, it is what Mark Twain might have told if he had had the courage not to be genial...
Rumors that London had been heavily bombed and was going up in flames were current all over rural Great Britain in the first weeks of World War II. Today, with less news than usual in Britain's habitually restrained newspapers, the King's subjects continue to trade heavily in rumors, and last week the following-entirely untrue-were widely believed...
Soon after, a pale, lanky rural school superintendent, E. Ross Wyatt, 36, was jailed, charged under the involved Texas law with "burglary of a private residence at nighttime with intent to commit a felony; to wit, murder." For 16 months beak-faced Principal Wyatt languished in the Dallas jail; once, on the trial date, pneumonia reprieved him. Last week the "love-bomb" trial began. From Chicago flew 26-year-old Mary...