Under Jim Hogg the state turned its attention toward corporations violating the state monopoly laws in 1894 Texas filed a lawsuit against John D Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company and its Texas subsidiary the Waters-Pierce Oil Company of Missouri Hogg and his attorney-general argued that the companies were engaged in rebates price fixing consolidation and other tactics prohibited by the state's 1889 antitrust act the investigation resulted in a number of indictments including one for Rockefeller Hogg requested that Rockefeller be extradited from New York but the New York governor refused as Rockefeller had not fled from Texas Rockefeller was never tried but other employees of the company were found guilty, After receiving notice from Juan de Grijalva of gold in the area of what is now Tabasco the governor of Cuba Diego de Velasquez sent a larger force than had previously sailed and appointed Cortes as Captain-General of the Armada Cortes then applied all of his funds mortgaged his estates and borrowed from merchants and friends to outfit his ships Velasquez may have contributed to the effort but the government of Spain offered no financial support. Houston's bicycle sharing system started service with nineteen stations in May 2012 Houston Bcycle (also known as B-Cycle) a local non-profit runs the subscription program supplying bicycles and docking stations while partnering with other companies to maintain the system the network expanded to 29 stations and 225 bicycles in 2014 registering over 43,000 checkouts of equipment during the first half of the same year in 2017 Bcycle logged over 142,000 check outs while expanding to 56 docking stations. Contents The University of Texas at Arlington Main articles: Military production during World War II and Home front during World War II. . .
North America colonization Statehood 5.3 South America Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year Spanish Mastiff used in expeditions and guard Cuba and United States: Maritime boundary agreement between the United States of America and the Republic of Cuba of December 16 1977. . Birth of the Spanish Kingdom In 2017 the United Healthcare Foundation ranked Texas as the 34th healthiest state in the United States. Obesity excessive drinking maternal mortality infant mortality and vaccinations are among the major public health issues facing Texas. Further information: Pre-Columbian Mexico 13 See also Areas of Alaska and British Columbia Explored by Spain. The 1940 Municipal Airport Terminal at William P Hobby Airport, In 2000 1,961,993 residents of Harris County spoke English only the five largest foreign languages in the county were Spanish or Spanish Creole (1,106,883 speakers) Vietnamese (53,311 speakers) Chinese (33,003 speakers) French including Cajun and Patois (33,003 speakers) and Urdu (14,595 speakers) Among those who spoke other languages 46% of Spanish speakers 37% of Vietnamese speakers 50% of Chinese speakers 85% of French speakers and 72% of Urdu speakers said that they spoke English at least "very well"; !
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