Word: ruralization
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...came down from his mountain retreat at Rocca della Caminate in Romagna, to Predappio, his birthplace in the valley below, where 10,000 peasants from all parts of Italy greeted him with gifts of wine, fruit, spaghetti, cheese, olive oil. He reviewed them, told them his spirit was "unchangeably rural." They in turn filed past the tomb of Alessandro and Rosa Maltoni Mussolini, Il Duce's parents, visited the house where Benito Mussolini was born and the blacksmith shop where his father worked...
...Joel Elias Spingarn, 64, lifelong champion of the U. S. Negro, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; after long illness; in Manhattan. Other Spingarn interests: a club for "Professors [like himself] Who Were Fired or Resigned Under Pressure from Columbia University," recreation centres for rural areas, boosting of the once-popular clematis* vine...
...Territorial Army, fully mechanized, started on Britain's greatest peacetime maneuvers. Trucks, radio cars, ambulance convoys, cyclists rumbled through ordinarily quiet rural roads as 135.000 men began a fortnight's training period which will end with a "battle" with an "invading" army from Wales...
With his own utility system Willkie set out to do a number of things that the New Deal advocated. To widen the use of electricity one of his first acts was to hire 500 salesmen to sell electrical devices. C. & S. began to extend its lines into rural areas; as electric consumption increased, it began to lower its rates, inviting more consumption. When Willkie took over in 1933, Commonwealth & Southern's average domestic rate per kilowatt hour was 6?. Today...
Hemmed in by Government competition, the utilities were cut off from new capital markets. Wendell Willkie cried out for private operation Binder full Government supervision. In vain. He advocated a revolving fund of $100,000,000 to finance private rural expansion, promising low rates if big-scale operation were made possible, while other bigshots in the utility field cringed at the rumpus that Willkie kicked...