Word: ruralization
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...little over a year ago the name Sam Snead might have been that of a wrestler or a race horse to the majority of U. S. sport addicts. But to a little rural group round Hot Springs, Va., Sam Snead was the youngest of the five Snead boys, the one who always kept "within hollering distance of his mother," the one who was a golf pro over at the Greenbrier Hotel at White Sulphur and could drive 35 balls in a row for an average of 285 yards. Some of the drugstore hillbillies even ventured...
...countrified Celt as well as a citified Englander, Poet MacNeice spends many of his poems in trying to figure how a contemporary European can seriously find any purpose in modern country life, any coherence in modern city life. In the beautiful and economically hopeless rural districts...
...Federal Trade Commission in its six-year power investigation. As for Government competition, all he asked was a fair break-such things as the use of the same accounting method for public power projects as the Federal Power Commission prescribes for private companies, definite division of territory for rural electrification, cessation of Federal gifts to cities wanting their own distribution systems, purchase of private systems at prices to be set by impartial tribunals. And to forestall the chaotic break-up of the big power systems, Mr. Willkie asked that the "death sentence" for holding companies be modified, but only...
...consolidated school. Their petition failing and the school completed, the Mennonites were about to defy the law and keep their children at home last month, when Pennsylvania's liberal Governor George Howard Earle came to the rescue. He ordered that they be permitted to put their children in rural one-room schools as they had been accustomed to. In gratitude last week 500 Mennonites and Amishmen of East Lampeter voted to give Governor Earle a turkey, a jug of cider, a pumpkin and some corn, every Christmas as long as he lives...
First U. S. eisteddfod was in Carbondale, Pa., in 1850. Now they are held in many U. S. towns. The largest one in Warren, Ohio, every May, is seven years old, attracts Welsh from Chicago, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, the rural and mining areas of Ohio and West Virginia. Smaller eisteddfods are held, usually on New Year's Day, in such Pennsylvania industrial centres as Wilkes-Barre. Plymouth. Kingston, Allentown, and in Philadelphia. New York and Los Angeles...