Word: ruralization
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...Reserve member banks, thus paving the way for Secretary Woodin to issue opening licenses. Banks were staggered for opening on the first three days of the week: Monday, 100% sound banks in Federal Reserve cities;* Tuesday, banks in the 250 urban centres with clearing houses; Wednesday, rural banks...
Meanwhile a frustrated old country doctor, Dr. Charles Morgan Hammond, 64, moped. Dr. Hammond practices in Memphis, lives across the Mississippi River at rural Hulbert, Ark. In his garage is a respirator similar to the ones Philip Drinker and John Haven Emerson are selling & fighting about. Dr. Hammond built his first respirator in 1903, applied for a patent in 1910 through Orson Desaix Munn, the patent attorney who owns the Scientific American. The Patent Office refused him because his machine was considered too slow to be of value in acute narcoses and too limited in its field for general purposes...
Plutarco Elias Calles, "Iron Man" and onetime President of Mexico, gave his Santa Barbara hacienda, 20 mi. from Mexico City, to the Mexican Agricultural Department for an experimental station. "Iron Man" Calles built his rural retreat five years ago when his first wife, by whom he had nine children, died. At Santa Barbara hacienda last November his beauteous young second wife, by whom he had two children, died. He has not been able to live there since...
...American education, has suffered far more than any of its brother systems and far more than most people realize. With, virtual chaos reigning in state and municipal economics, the teachers of primary schools have had their numbers reduced, their salaries cut or suspended, their facilities seriously impaired. Many a rural school has been discontinued and many a needed building plan has been scrapped. In fact a reliable federal survey has shown that 9,500,000 children in the nation are being deprived of proper education...
...Baltimore, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Detroit, Indianapolis, Newark, New York, Philadelphia. Pittsburgh, Washington-"communities most of which are financially able to provide whatever may be needed in the way of control measures." These Negroes, numbering about 1,500,000, "intensely Race conscious," have higher tuberculosis death rates than their rural Southern cousins. But they are handier to deal with. As prime examples of tuberculosis prevention among Negroes, the National Tuberculosis Association last week pointed with pride...