Word: ruralization
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...second move was to dispatch 18,000 peasants, mainly drawn from congested rural districts, to new Government-improved farms on the Libyan coast. The Government intends to transfer 50,000 peasants to Libya by 1942, at a cost...
...gets news only from bazaar gossip on market days, loses even that source when impassable roads through the four-month rainy season keep him home. So for three years All-India Radio (controlled by the Indian Government) has been trying to figure out a broadcasting scheme to enlighten rural India...
Last week the rural broadcasting scheme revived when the Government installed receiving sets in 120 villages of the 573-sq.-mi. Delhi district. Installed in village chowpals (clubrooms, usually a raised earthen platform some 50 feet square with a portico at one end), instruments are kept in locked rooms, loudspeakers installed out of reach. Each evening at sunset an automatic device switches on the sets, turns them off after one hour of blaring. Automatic operation is necessary to prevent ryots from damaging the sets either through ignorance or anger...
...Central Australia, a more radio-wise part of the British Empire with a rural isolation problem, flying physicians go out on radio calls. Ranchers, farmers, miners have pedal radio transmitters, take exhausting rides on stationary bicycles to generate power for calling the doctor by radio...
Furthermore, civilian netting in rural and small-town North Carolina did not answer the defense questions of Manhattan, Pittsburgh, Chicago, San Francisco, around which lie vast patchworks of smaller cities, replete with well nigh indispensable lights, ground noises to dull groundling ears, an appalling number of dispersed targets for enemy hunters. Army men neatly turned this fact to their publicity uses. In North Carolina was concentrated all the modern antiaircraft equipment east of the Rocky Mountains. Twenty-four guns, in six batteries, were barely enough to defend the 1½-square mile objective marked off at Fort Bragg...