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4.4 Stadia 13 External links Harris County ESD #28 Fire Ponderosa VFD 1% .10 The United Kingdom France and Italy formed the Stresa Front in April 1935 in order to contain Germany a key step towards military globalization; however that June the United Kingdom made an independent naval agreement with Germany easing prior restrictions the Soviet Union concerned by Germany's goals of capturing vast areas of Eastern Europe drafted a treaty of mutual assistance with France Before taking effect though the Franco-Soviet pact was required to go through the bureaucracy of the League of Nations which rendered it essentially toothless the United States concerned with events in Europe and Asia passed the Neutrality Act in August of the same year. . ! Mark White born in Henderson Rusk County 13 See also.

A lithograph showing the bust of a clean-shaven man He is in military dress uniform with one medal around his neck and several others pinned at his shoulder, Part of a series on the Sam Houston former president of the Republic of Texas former governor of Texas retired in Huntsville Walker County! . On May 30 1922 George Hermann a millionaire donated land to the city that later became the Hermann Park September of the same year saw the start of the Houston Zoo the zoo was started when Houston schoolchildren bought two ostriches the zoo was later moved from Sam Houston Park to Hermann Park September 26 saw the first international-bound ship in the port During the Roaring Twenties more specifically 1927 the state highway to Houston was built Bus and truck operations also fell into swing Houston Junior College opened its doors that same year which later became the University of Houston August 1929 saw the entry of the first Sears into Houston Then Black Tuesday threw a devastating blow to the economy of the entire United States Houston's growth was much smaller but the city still grew Mexican Americans no longer found it as easy to obtain jobs yet several were successful by catering to the Anglo market in the city. World War II had a dramatic impact on Texas as federal money poured in to build military bases munitions factories POW detention camps and Army hospitals; 750,000 young men left for service; the cities exploded with new industry; the colleges took on new roles; and hundreds of thousands of poor farmers left the fields for much better paying war jobs never to return to agriculture. Texas manufactured 3.1 percent of total United States military armaments produced during World War II ranking eleventh among the 48 states, Microplastics within semi-enclosed seas like the Gulf have been reported in high concentrations and the Gulf's first such study estimated concentrations that rival the highest globally reported.