Word: ruralization
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Instead of a sweltering day in Topeka, it was a cool evening in Chicago. Instead of a rural throng of picnicking Kansans on the State House lawn, it was an urban crowd of 20,000 packed into Chicago's enclosed Stadium.* Instead of the flat prairie voice of Alf M. Landon, it was the boom of Frank Knox. But the difference was more than a difference of weather, crowd, voice...
Thirty-three years later a settler has cleared a field in the forest, built a log house, and is grazing his cattle among the huge stumps of the white pines. Model No. 3 shows the same hillside in 1830, at the height of rural cultivation in New England: stone walls and white farm houses are everywhere; only a few straggling wood lots remain of the original forest...
...drought has changed the situation materially and the quarterback will call for a new play," announced Rural Electrification Administrator Morris Llewellyn Cooke last week. The quarterback was again Franklin Roosevelt, and he had just called a new play by appointing Administrator Cooke to be chairman of the Great Plains Drought Area Committee of six, including Works Progress Administrator Harry Hopkins and Resettlement Administrator Rexford G. Tugwell. What play the President would call next for the drought areas depended last week on what this little brain trust hatched out before his trip to the West this month...
...best rural correspondent it can find each year, Crowell Publishing Co.'s Country Home awards a money prize, a trip to Manhattan. Last year the Country Home award went to Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Mahnkey for her writings in the Forsyth (Mo.) Taney County Republican (TIME, July 29, 1935). Last fortnight Crowell announced that this year's $200 prize had fallen to Mrs. Susan Frawley Eisele, whose farm home is nine miles from Blue Earth, Minn., in recognition of her column, With a Penny Pencil, which runs once a week in the Fairmont (Minn.) Sentinel...
...roads have always lagged behind automobiles in technological improvement, are now almost universally too slow for the automobile, too dangerous for the driver. Of the 3,000,000 miles of U. S. rural road, backbone is the state system of 324,000 miles of primary highways, of which only one-half is hard surface, between towns. Usually considered the world's finest network, it is really, according to Expert McClintock, an inadequate, unscientific hodgepodge. Sole idea behind most of the system was to have bigger, harder roads. These inevitably caused more accidents. Less than 1% provide what experts...