Word: california
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flowing in," reported the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce in 1921. "No human agency can stop it." In no mood to stop it, the chamber advertised the state's sunny joys at Midwestern county fairs to entice thousands more to join the 3,500,000 already in sunny California. But the wildest enthusiasts underguessed the migrations to come. The chamber has since quit trying to swell the stream, settled down to work on problems-roads, water shortages, etc. -to be multiplied by still more millions of newcomers. In pride and awe, the chamber's California Population Study Committee...
...California's 1965 total (18,100,000) may top New York (est. 16,229,000 in 1958) to make it biggest in the 49 states, keep rising to a staggering 1980 mark of 27.8 million...
...million, 9.9 million will live in Los Angeles County alone, and 17,349,000 in the lotus-eater land of Southern California...
...independence of Texas, which nine years later joined the U.S. In 1846 and 1847 the U.S. sent Generals Zachary ("Old Rough and Ready") Taylor and Winfield ("Old Fuss and Feathers") Scott into Mexico to defeat Santa Anna again, seize all the land from northern California to Texas...
...once-great actor. Something has been borrowed from the legend of the Mad Booths, and something from the lives, to which have been added puns, pomposities, and speeches from Shakespeare's plays. In an atmosphere of swig-and-spout, Old Junius and Young Ned part company in California; Ned, amid rehearsals, finds romance with Mary Devlin; John Wilkes Booth shouts his Latin and is the assassin of a President; at the Players Club he founded, Edwin dies while thunder rolls...