Word: deserts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...right-to-work laws that lost in five out of six states last fall and carried many a Republican down with them.† If Goldwater, who won easily in Arizona, right-to-work and all, takes an uncompromising stand during the labor bill debates, liberal Republicans may desert him not so much to affect Senate voting as to remind labor before 1960 that the G.O.P. has a friendly profile...
...into business, became a real estate man during the Florida land boom, moved to California in 1921, where he built up a stake selling lots. His biggest successes came after World War II, when he recognized that the logical outlet for California's pressing population was the desert...
Since then, Phillips has had a hand in developing many communities (see map), has lured more and more Californians into the desert, building them houses on the lots he sells. At his Hesperia development at the foot of the San Bernardino Mountains, the population grew from about 700 in 1954 to more than 4,000 now. Acre lots that sold for as low as $795 four years ago are now worth $6,000. His Edwards Estates at Edwards Air Force Base and Mountain View Estates at Victorville have grown from sandy wastes to thriving communities...
Although most banks consider desert building too speculative for loans to individual borrowers, they readily lend to Phillips because of his excellent record. Phillips' companies each year build close to 1,000 homes, most in desert areas, in the $8,000-to-$11,000 price range, and there is no end in sight...
Penn Phillips is busy planning future desert developments, has already participated in the purchase of another 80,000 acres of land in the Mojave Desert for $9,000,000. Gazing at the great Mojave from the window of his private plane, Penn Phillips predicted: "That desert is going to be the cradle of a vast amount of our population...