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In 1940 Houston 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 Mere 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 Tens Of Thousands Of New Migrants Streamed In From Rural Areas Straining The City's Housing Supply And The City's Ability To Provide Local Transit And Schools For The First Time High Paying Jobs Went To Large Numbers Of Women Blacks And Mexican Americans The City's African American Community Emboldened By Their Newfound Prosperity Became A Hotbed Of Civil Rights Agitation; The Smith V Allwright Supreme Court Decision On Voting Rights Was Backed And Funded By Local Blacks In This Period.[page Needed]
. Humble Alcohol policy Much of Texas politics of the remainder of the 19th century centered on land use Guided by the federal Morill Act Texas sold public lands to gain funds to invest in higher education in 1876 the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas opened and seven years later the University of Texas at Austin began conducting classes. Six Flags Astroworld Houston's only large theme park closed in 2005, 6.1 Books Houston TranStar Center General Douglas MacArthur returns to the Philippines during the Battle of Leyte 20 October 1944. 6.2 Petrochemicals History of Texas At the Casablanca Conference in early 1943 the Allies reiterated the statements issued in the 1942 Declaration and demanded the unconditional surrender of their enemies the British and Americans agreed to continue to press the initiative in the Mediterranean by invading Sicily to fully secure the Mediterranean supply routes. Although the British argued for further operations in the Balkans to bring Turkey into the war in May 1943 the Americans extracted a British commitment to limit Allied operations in the Mediterranean to an invasion of the Italian mainland and to invade France in 1944.
The Basques were fur trading fishing cod and whaling in Terranova (Labrador and Newfoundland) in 1520 and in Iceland by at least the early 17th century. They established whaling stations at the former mainly in Red Bay and probably established some in the latter as well in Terranova they hunted bowheads and right whales while in Iceland they appear to have only hunted the latter the Spanish fishery in Terranova declined over conflicts between Spain and other European powers during the late 16th and early 17th centuries, The Germans were the largest group immigrating directly from Europe. According to the Handbook of Texas :. 2 Surface water Rice University located near the Museum District and Texas Medical Center is a private tier-one research university and the most selective institution of higher education in Texas.
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