Word: ruralization
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Problem. As no one knows better than Lord Bessborough, the Mother Country is a comparatively small, densely populated manufacturing area. The dominions, on the contrary, are comparatively large areas, rural and sparsely populated but with "infant industries" of which they are proud, hopeful. Since the Mother Country is suffering from unemployment (many of her plants being closed), and since the dominions buy a great deal of manufactured goods from outside the Empire, cannot an imperial agreement be made for the dominions to buy proportionally more manufactures from the Mother Country and for her to buy proportionally more raw materials...
...desire of the smalltown matron to ally herself, no matter how remotely, with a congregation of bona fide, rotogravure society figures in a cause about which she may or may not have profound convictions. The weakness of the W. O. N. P. R. lies in the populous class of rural women who also vote and who bitterly suspect, envy and hate the ground that ladies like Mrs. Sabin walk on. Crusaders. A companion organization to Mrs. Sabin's is the Crusaders, which numbers a million militant male members (chiefly young) and which was founded in the same month...
Such was the campaign cry of Senator Cameron Morrison, North Carolina Democrat, as he entered last week's run-off primary to hold his seat in Washington. When the votes were counted, it was found that "Cam" Morrison, oldtime party warhorse, typical rural political vegetable, was indeed a dead Dry and that North Carolina had gone Wet by almost two votes...
...Depression reduced Sir John to advertising for sale last week Fritwell Manor in Oxfordshire, his rural pleasure palace for almost 20 years. Lady Simon still appears at social functions in latest Paris creations, bedight with diamonds & pearls. They keep their dignified town residence...
There were 391 new cases of typhoid fever in the U. S. last week-45 in cities, the rest in rural districts. The previous week there were 215 new cases. The disease has become so comparatively rare in the U. S. that many an interne would have difficulty in recognizing the symptoms his textbooks describe. Thirty years ago estimates gave the U. S. 450,000 cases, 45,000 deaths. In 1925 there were about 150,000 cases, 15,000 deaths. The progressive improvement has been in great measure due to public health officers insistently damning and destroying the common house...