Word: ruralization
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Since the automobile first became an object of taxation, States have spent much of the money derived from motor taxes to build and maintain State highways. These highways run through rural districts and avoid the cities, or stop at their outskirts, though more than 50% of all motor vehicles are registered in cities and towns of over 10,000 population. Last week the American Automobile Association proposed a new system: that States treat trunk-line thoroughfares in cities as a part of the State highway systems; that these trunk lines through congested areas be built with funds from State motor...
Black mixed with Red last week to make a bloody brew for Tallapoosa County, Ala. At a rural church in the woods outside Camp Hill several hundred Negroes met furtively by night. Ostensibly they came together to form a sharecroppers' union against what they were told was the oppression of white landowners. One Ralph Gray was posted outside as a picket. Inside, the management of the meeting was taken over by a black Communist from Chattanooga. He represented, he said, the "Society for the Advancement of Colored People." He told his auditors to demand social equality and white intermarriage...
...estate. Gracefully and probably shrewdly, Son Mitten turned the estate (now valued at $1,000,000) over to P. R. T., thereby helping the company in a time of need and saving his father's transactions from further scandal. Chief items in the estate are large rural landholdings, 20,000 P. R. T. shares. Son Mitten will not be destitute, however. He still receives $50,000 a year as P. R. T. chairman...
...health conditions as well as any one in the State. He lives at Cherrydale. During the War, as assistant surgeon in the Health Service, he had charge of extra-cantonment sanitation at Petersburg and Newport News. After the War, the late Commissioner Williams borrowed him to help develop rural sanitation in Virginia counties...
...speech on extension of the Government's rural housing program before the House of Commons, Megan Lloyd George had occasion to make a fast mental calculation. She announced the result with the qualification: "If my arithmetic is correct?" Her father, famed David Lloyd George, said: "Right." Replied Daughter Megan: "I thank my right honorable friend...