Word: ruralization
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...They will know the dangerous effect of automobile radios, "tunnel vision" (inability to see out of the corner of the eye), and thinking about quarrels with one's wife (perseveration). As pedestrians they will be taught to cross at crossings, hold umbrellas high, walk to the left on rural highways and at night to carry a light or something white; as essential adjustments to environment "if the pedestrian of today is not to become too literally 'The Vanishing American...
...covey of quail, or a good trout hole, who's had a baby, what fresh cow is for sale, or how the road is down river way-they ask the.R. F. D. carrier. He or she (there are 323 shes among 32,988 U. S. rural mail-carriers) also has a good idea of who is going to vote for whom in an election year, and can do a lot toward getting folks to vote this way or that. One of Postmaster General Farley's main reasons for getting back from politicking around the country was to address...
Boss Farley said: 1) That rural lif must be made attractive; the farm-to-city trend is a national menace. And 2) "There is no more attractive ornament to a country home than an artistic, well-preserved mail receptacle...
...five years, 7,365 rural routes have been merged with others, for a P. O. saving of $8,450,000 a year. Meanwhile, R. F. D. has been extended 19,500,000 yearly route-miles...
India's impoverished rural children, who will go to school from ages 5 to 14, 288 days a year, will work for their education four hours each school day, making cloth, etc. for sale. Plan is to start each school by getting a patriot to give a piece of land yielding at least $80 a year. The rest of the cost is to be met by village festivals, Government grants. Teachers will live in the schoolhouses, be paid $8 a month, sign up for a minimum of 25 years' service. A problem: enlisting women teachers. India has virtually...