Word: ruralization
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...like Georgia's whereby each county would have one unit vote for every 100 popular votes cast in the last gubernatorial election, with an absolute maximum of ⅛ of 1% of the population. Object of Governor Browning's unit plan was to enlarge the voting power of rural districts, put a crimp in the Crump vote by reducing it from approximately 25% of the State total...
When, following the War, the first few scattered bus lines strung short networks along rural roads, trolley cars, interurban electric lines and railroads had already pre-empted the best U. S. transportation routes. Slim indeed seemed the prospects of the infant bus industry. Last year the onetime infant had driven trolleys entirely out of 434 cities, had $690,000,000 worth of equipment, operated 1,389.000 miles of route, carried over 3,000,000,000 passengers, and its 4,780 bus companies had an aggregate income of $467,000,000. Of the 124,000 busses in service...
...Seventh Day Adventist, which spent $50,000,000 on foreign missionary work in six recent years (TIME, June 8, 1936), the fashionable Protestant Episcopal Church is comparatively cool about carrying the Word afar. It budgets about $5,000,000 a year for missions, chiefly in U. S. rural districts, Alaska, South America, India, and in recent years the Episcopal faithful have periodically allowed missionary deficits to accumulate...
...largest since 1929's $10,479,000,000, and more than a billion greater than last year. Though bears suggested that most of this fat income had already been spent in anticipatory or installment buying, leaving only a wrung-out remnant for fall business, joy reigned in most rural hearts as the nine billion dollar harvest moon approached its full...
Theodore Walter Taylor, Washington, D.C., B.A., 1935, University of Arizona; president of Wesley Foundation and active in dramatics, swimming, and debating; graduate work at Syracuse and American Universities; experience as junior interviewer for the Rural Electrification Administration...