Word: ruralization
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...Great Plains states. . . . Think what a calamity it would be if the Hoover doctrine were in force!" In five days WPA placed 16,500 farmers on relief projects, made ready to handle another 58,500. The Resettlement Administration declared a one-year moratorium on some 30,000 rural rehabilitation loans, prepared to pour out $18,000,000 for crop loans and feed. With Secretary of Agriculture Wallace vacationing in Colorado, the AAA continued to amend its soil conservation program, permitting farmers to cut for forage soil-depleting crops hitherto condemned to be plowed under...
...purely English problem, tithes have been collected since 786 A.D., mainly to support the Church of England, farmers originally paying a tenth of their crop to the parson. Since 1836 cash payment has been enforced, and in 1936 rural indignation is such that of 5,500 court orders obtained last year to enforce payment of tithes not one was executed. The Tithe Bill, as passed, is to end tithe payments as such by handing to the Church and certain swank "public schools" gilt-edged stock worth $350,000,000 and paying 3 % interest guaranteed by the State. In turn...
Profitless Oil. Unlike Britain, the U. S. has only a few communities cooperatively self-contained, notably Maynard, Mass., where co-ops can furnish nearly all consumer needs. There are two small co-op mail-order houses. Co-operation has been adapted to rural telephones, power plants, personal loans (credit unions), groceries, trucking, insurance, undertaking. But except for farm supplies the most conspicuous success has been with oil & gas. Co-op gas stations have multiplied two-thousand-fold since the first was founded in Cottonwood, Minn...
...Democratic platform declared for social security, for fair prices for consumers, for rural electrification, for decent housing, for freedom of speech & press, for extension of the civil service ("to all non-policy-making positions in the Federal service"), against monopoly, war and international entanglements. With such lofty aims in themselves, neither Republicans nor the Republican platform take serious issue. But specific differences there are on several points between the two platforms. Notably...
...Utopian colonies have long bred in the Empire State's northern hills. Author Carmer says that the roar of the cities overwhelms the sound of the drum, which may be interpreted as meaning that modern industrialization is death to the sort of myths once powerfully alive in rural New York, of which elusive evidence still remains...