Word: boomtowns
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...energy crisis has even spawned one boomtown: Taft, Calif, (pop. 4,285). It is on the rim of the Elk Hills Naval Oil Reserve, whose wells will have to help fuel the military (seepage 47). Bank deposits are up 35%, and loan requests have increased 25% over last year; 50 new condominiums are being built...
...basic and how fundamental is immediately evident in the boomtown prosperity of Strasbourg, which has capitalized on its schizophrenic past in planning its European future. It not only exports most of its products -chiefly synthetic rubber and machine tools-but it also draws on the German Wirtschaftswunder for its own development. More than 26,000 Alsatians cross the Rhine daily to work in German and Swiss plants. Conversely, 10,000 Germans drive into Alsace every day, many to load up on cheaper French food...
...scramble for subleases, drilling rights and tips on new finds, Oneida has become the newest boomtown headquarters of the oil industry. Cadillacs and Lincolns with out-of-state license plates cruise the streets. D.B. Biglane, rotund in his checked suit, swoops in almost weekly from Natchez, Miss., in his rented DC-3. Like most visiting oilmen, he wheels and deals at Tobe's Motel and Restaurant. Owner Tobe Philips, who now drives a Cadillac himself, has nearly doubled his prices and started a 16-room addition. Across town, the B & Z Motel is putting up visitors in trailers...
...Boomtown, U.S.A. The trouble is that the citizenry has long lived in the -vicinity of vice. In the roaring '20s, with thousands at work in the surrounding coal mines and thousands more employed in the railroad yards, there was no shortage of customers for the brothels and horse rooms. The city's gamy reputation drew rakehells from as far north as Chicago, 156 miles away. Oldtimers recall the days when not a single house was a home in the six-block Tenderloin along the Wabash River...
...labor disputes, including a 1935 general strike. The mines lost money and the rail yards (famed as the starting point for Union Organizer and Socialist Candidate for President Eugene Debs) sharply diminished. In 1963 a series of gas explosions upended buildings and won the city the derisive title of "Boomtown, U.S.A." More and more, Terre Haute (1968 pop. 72,500) leaned for revenue on Indiana State, which grew from 4,000 students to 16,000 in ten years...