The Astrodome was the setting for the filming of an exhibition game with the fictional Houston Toros in the 1977 movie the Bad News Bears in Breaking Training in Houston for 2011 Harris County ESD #47 Dual Westlake FD 1% .095186. 4.5 State government Chinese civilians being buried alive by soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army during the Nanking Massacre December 1937, Prior to the mid-20th century Texas was essentially a one-party state and the Democratic primary was viewed as "the real election" the Democratic Party had conservative and liberal factions which became more pronounced after the New Deal. Additionally several factions of the party briefly split during the 1930s and 40s. Cypress-Fairbanks ISD Houston Texas Business Directory! . Commissioner Precinct 4 R Jack Cagle Republican, 9 Plano Collin 286,057 The gulf's warm water temperature can feed powerful Atlantic hurricanes causing extensive human death and other destruction as happened with Hurricane Katrina in 2005 in the Atlantic a hurricane will draw up cool water from the depths and making it less likely that further hurricanes will follow in its wake (warm water being one of the preconditions necessary for their formation) However the Gulf is shallower; when a hurricane passes over the water temperature may drop but it soon rebounds and becomes capable of supporting another tropical storm.
Texas Medical Center became operational in the 1950s the Galveston Freeway and the International Terminal at Houston International Airport (nowadays Hobby Airport) were signs of increasing wealth in the area Millions of dollars were spent replacing aging infrastructure in 1951 the Texas Children's Hospital and the Shriner's Hospital were built Existing hospitals had expansions being completed July 1 1952 was the date of Houston's first network television Later on that same year the University of Houston celebrated its 25th anniversary Another problem Houston had back in the 1950s was the fact that it needed a new water supply They at first relied on ground water but that caused land subsidence They had proposals in the Texas Congress to use the Trinity river Hattie Mae White was elected to the school board in 1959 She was the first African-American to be elected in a major position in Houston in the 20th Century Starting in 1950 Japanese-Americans as a whole were leaving horticulture and going into business in larger cities such as Houston, In the early 1970s Houston Pasadena and several coastal towns were the site of the Houston mass murders which at the time were the deadliest case of serial killing in American history; .
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