Word: ruralization
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Henry Ford took occasion last week to announce the next major step in his industrial career. He envisions thousands of small rural factories making Ford parts, largely from farm products. Workers would spend part time in the fields, part in the factory. Only motors and other vital parts would be made in a large central plant. Objects of such decentralization would be operating economy and resuscitation of the farm...
...Northern Negroes show more tuberculosis than Southern Negroes. The Association is attacking Northern conditions first-upon advice of its special investigator Dr. Cameron St. Clair Guild (pronounced Gould), a Nova Scotian who has become expert on Southern U. S. public health deficiencies. The Rosenwald Fund, builder of schools for rural Negroes, is paying for tuberculosis control among the Race. One able Negro, Sociologist Charles Spurgeon Johnson of Fisk University, belongs to the committee of prevention...
...Charlie had six children to feed. Charlie was getting desperate and even threatening to vote the Democratic ticket. His mother just did not know what on earth could be done about Charlie. Last week President Hoover did something about Charlie-issued an executive order appointing Charles Carran a rural mail carrier out of West Branch at $2,070 per year...
...Dickson had only smalltown doctors to attend her - Dr. William Patrick Morse, 59, who lives along Rural Delivery Route No. 1 outside Princeton; and Dr. William Louard Cash, 53, obstetrician, who is Mayor of Princeton. They soothed her with drugs for 120 hours, then found and removed from her nose her sneeze-maker-a wild hair...
What many a pedagog could not see was why schools did not have as much right to R. F. C. money as railroads and banks. If denied relief, they warned that: 1) rural schools in Wyoming may close in a year; 2) Michigan may be unable to refinance its school debt; 3) teachers' salaries may remain delinquent in New Jersey; 4) school years may be shortened in Ohio and Idaho; 5) San Francisco may be forced to leave unfinished its school building program for lack...