Word: ruralization
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...have arrived at certain very definite convictions as to the amount of money that will be necessary for the sort of public projects that I have described. ... I assure you now they will be within the sound credit of the Government Clearance of slums . . . rural housing . . . rural electrification . . . reforestation . . . soil erosion . . . highways . . . elimination of grade crossings...
...During the next 20 years [the Government] could profitably spend $1,000,000,000 on river works in the Mississippi Valley, half of which would be for self-liquidating power installations." "A safe and socially justifiable experiment" would be the allotment of $100,000,000 for independent, self-liquidating rural electric projects...
...going to stop being lunatics after all. The moon is to be evicted from her last retreat, the Paschal Date. For my part, if they standardize Easter for the sake of Trade (as Christmas is lost in rubicund sales ads) what will remain? Only lovers in rural lanes will hereafter lift their eyes through glittery foliage and salute the orb. . . . A standardized calendar will do away with our last vestigial connection to a real heaven. So the urban business mind decrees. But some of us will continue to praise the moon, living and dying blessed lunatics, along with Orientals...
...Fanchiachuang Experimental Rural Center in North China; an interdenominational enterprise for Chinese but "capable of reproduction by the average Christian group...
...news was first developed in Manhattan. Aware of the widespread talk about universal fingerprinting, compulsory or voluntary, as an aid to law & order, Vice President Edward C. Johnston of Western Newspaper Union, a feature syndicate serving the rural Press, worked it into a newspaper promotion campaign. With ease he sold the idea to his client Walter B. Sanders, publisher of Geneseo's Leader. Last fortnight the Leader splashed down its front page a two-column invitation to all Geneseans to come to the newspaper office and be fingerprinted, free, by a new process using...