The Dentists on Pearl

. 4.6 Earlier 20th century Satellite image of Houston 2018. Main article: Texas Medical Center, Texian retreat: the Runaway Scrape The economy which had experienced significant recovery since the Civil War was dealt a double blow by the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl After the Stock Market Crash of 1929 the economy suffered significant reversals Thousands of city workers became unemployed many of whom depended on federal relief programs such as FERA WPA and CCC Thousands of unemployed Mexican citizens received one-way bus tickets to their home villages in Mexico.

. . ! Nowhere were the wartime effects greater than in Houston which in 1940 was a city of 400,000 population dependent on shipping and oil the war dramatically expanded the city's economic base thanks to massive federal spending Energetic entrepreneurs most notably George Brown James Elkins and James Abercrombie landed hundreds of millions of dollars in federal wartime investment in technologically complex facilities Houston oil companies moved from being refiners and became sophisticated producers of petrochemicals Especially important were synthetic rubber and high octane fuel which retained their importance after the war the war moved the natural gas industry from a minor factor to a major energy source; Houston became a major hub when a local firm purchased the federally-financed Inch pipelines Other major growth industries included steel munitions and shipbuilding, The Trust for America's Health ranked Texas 15th highest in adult obesity with 27.2 percent of the state's population measured as obese the 2008 Men's Health obesity survey ranked four Texas cities among the top 25 fattest cities in America; Houston ranked 6th Dallas 7th El Paso 8th and Arlington 14th. Texas had only one city Austin ranked 21st in the top 25 among the "fittest cities" in America the same survey has evaluated the state's obesity initiatives favorably with a "B+" the state is ranked forty-second in the percentage of residents who engage in regular exercise.