The first Hattie Mae White Administration Building; it has been sold and demolished; Energy and oil (15 companies) See also: List of hospitals in Texas, 4 Public facilities 2.1 Geology Marshall (23,523) Houston Texas Business Directory. . History In October 2001 Enron a Houston-based energy company got caught in accounting scandals ultimately leading to collapse of the company and its accounting firm Arthur Andersen and the arrest and imprisonment of several executives. . ! American 8th Air Force Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bombing raid on the Focke-Wulf factory in Germany 9 October 1943, In 1980 a year of strong economic activity and robust competition in the grocery market prices in Houston's grocery stores were below the national average prices in grocery stores Houston's grocery price index averaged at 85.6 below the national average of 88.4 This means that for the 1982-1984 base period Houstonians paid $88.40 for an amount of food that would cost $100 according to the national average During the oil bust and the economic decline Houston's prices stayed even with the national average in 1983 Houston's grocery index increased from 96.8 to 99.4 and matched the national average of 99.1 As the city began to recover the prices began to edge upward When a recession in the U.S began and while Houston's economic growth slowed and continued the national price index fell below Houston's price index As of 1992 prices in Houston's grocery stores were higher than the national average; Houston's index averaged to be 137.3 and the national average was 132.3, 10.2.3 Obesity prevention Boxing & WWE February 12 1960: 4.4 inches (11 cm) of snow. 2 1900s Sevilla la Nueva established in 1509 was the first Spanish settlement on the island of Jamaica which the Spaniards called Isla de Santiago the capital was in an unhealthy location and consequently moved around 1534 to the place they called "Villa de Santiago de la Vega" later named Spanish Town in present-day Saint Catherine Parish.
Houston is located in the Gulf Coastal Plain biome and its vegetation is classified as temperate grassland Much of the city was built on marshes forested land swamp or prairie all of which can still be seen in surrounding areas! . .
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