Word: ruralization
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...effect of these increases in salary grades over those for the fiscal year 1918 was an increase of $600 to clerks and carriers in Post Offices, $500 to railway postal clerks and $600 to rural carriers...
...Harvard Dramatic Club will drop back four centuries this summer when five of its members join a company of travelling players which is to tour through Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine presenting its repertoire of short plays in one nights stands at rural communities all along the line after the manner of the strolling players of the sixteenth century...
...selection of plays to be offered at its various one night stands along the road, the company has indeed been brave. He who would undertake to present W. B. Yeats and W. S. Gilbert to rural audiences whose previous experience of the drama has probably been acquired from "East Lynne" and the Number Three Company of "Uncle Tom's Oabin" is obviously a man of mettle. If Mr. Bushnell Cheney, who is playing the general part of Moses to the troupe, had not already demonstrated the practicability of his idea in a former tour, he might almost be considered...
Death rates for 1923 were slightly higher than for 1922 in 25 of 36 states. The highest death rate (20.3 per 1,000) was for cities of Mississippi, and the lowest (6.5) for rural districts in Idaho...
...highest infant mortality rate for 1923 (117) was for cities of South Carolina, and the lowest (51) for rural districts of Utah and the cities of Washington...