Word: ruralization
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...public buildings ($156,750,000), parks ($156,750,000), public utilities ($171,000,000), flood control ($128,250,000), white-collar projects ($85,500,000), women's projects ($85,500,000), miscellaneous work projects ($71,250,000), National Youth Administration ($71,250,000) and $85,500,000 for rural rehabilitation...
...rate it shows that we are living in a small world when college professors read meat advertisements of rural midwestern towns and make comment thereof in their official college papers. If our advertisements are good reading for folks in the "High-bat' East they must be alright for us of the "common" Midwest. And it also goes to show it pays to advertise. -Clipped from the "Sleepy Eye Progressive...
Popular with his rural constituents until he began maligning AAA, Senator Dickinson faces a hard fight for re-election this year. But that prospect has lately been assuaged by the buzzing in his large, well-shaped head of some such exciting thought as the following: "If Warren Harding could get the Republican Presidential nomination in 1920, why can't I get it in 1936?" Like Harding, "Dick" Dickinson, with his big frame, Roman features and shock of silver-white hair, makes a handsome, impressive figure. Like Harding, he would personify a return to normalcy after a hectic Democratic regime...
...Beside a rural filling station six miles west of Clarksburg, W. Va. one day last week, some 200 public officials and plain citizens gathered around a square little building with slanting roof and shiny coat of white & orange paint. A driving windstorm had kept many a countryman from attending the ceremony. A storm of public ridicule had presumably made the State Health Commissioner and an Assistant Surgeon General of the U. S. cancel their scheduled appearances. Occasion was the dedication of the 100,000th sanitary pit privy built by relief workers in West Virginia...
...Manhattan financial editors by quietly handing out a brief announcement that there would be no fight. W. N. U. would continue to pay its 6% bondholders their 6%. All hands agreed to drop reorganization proceedings. On its part, the Fish management attributed this change of heart to improvement in rural business conditions. Everybody seemed pleased. Next day, W. N. U.'s bonds, with $8 back interest accruing, shot up 20 points on the New York Curb Exchange...