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Throughout East Texas black family growth and dissolution came more rapidly than in peacetime; blacks were more mobile as an adjustment to employment opportunities There was a more rapid shift to factory labor higher economic returns and a willingness of whites to tolerate the change in black economic status so long as the traditional "Jim Crow" social relations were maintained! . Pollution In the Pacific US forces continued to press back the Japanese perimeter in mid-June 1944 they began their offensive against the Mariana and Palau islands and decisively defeated Japanese forces in the Battle of the Philippine Sea These defeats led to the resignation of the Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo and provided the United States with air bases to launch intensive heavy bomber attacks on the Japanese home islands in late October American forces invaded the Filipino island of Leyte; soon after Allied naval forces scored another large victory in the Battle of Leyte Gulf one of the largest naval battles in history. Sports On March 31 Houston paused his men at Groce's Landing roughly 15 miles (24 km) north of San Felipe.[Note 13] Two companies that refused to retreat further than San Felipe were assigned to guard the crossings on the Brazos River. For the next two weeks the Texians rested recovered from illness and for the first time began practicing military drills While there two cannons known as the Twin Sisters arrived from Cincinnati Ohio. Interim Secretary of War Thomas Rusk joined the camp with orders from Burnet to replace Houston if he refused to fight Houston quickly persuaded Rusk that his plans were sound. Secretary of State Samuel P Carson advised Houston to continue retreating all the way to the Sabine River where more volunteers would likely flock from the United States and allow the army to counterattack.[Note 14] Unhappy with everyone involved Burnet wrote to Houston: "The enemy are laughing you to scorn You must fight them You must retreat no further the country expects you to fight the salvation of the country depends on your doing so." Complaints within the camp became so strong that Houston posted notices that anyone attempting to usurp his position would be court-martialed and shot! Finance The Great Depression and the Dust Bowl dealt a double blow to the state's economy which had significantly improved since the Civil War Migrants abandoned the worst hit sections of Texas during the Dust Bowl years Especially from this period on blacks left Texas in the Great Migration to get work in the Northern United States or California and to escape the oppression of segregation in 1940 Texas was 74 percent Anglo 14.4 percent black and 11.5 percent Hispanic. Playoff game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Los Angeles Lakers in 2007, In November 1939 the United States was taking measures to assist China and the Western Allies and amended the Neutrality Act to allow "cash and carry" purchases by the Allies in 1940 following the German capture of Paris the size of the United States Navy was significantly increased in September the United States further agreed to a trade of American destroyers for British bases. Still a large majority of the American public continued to oppose any direct military intervention in the conflict well into 1941 in December 1940 Roosevelt accused Hitler of planning world conquest and ruled out any negotiations as useless calling for the United States to become an "arsenal of democracy" and promoting Lend-Lease programmes of aid to support the British war effort the United States started strategic planning to prepare for a full-scale offensive against Germany, The front of a brick building; the top of the building appears torn off Around the arched doorway are four niches now empty There are two small square windows.

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