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Bishop Berkeley's 18th century dictum "Westward the course of empire takes its way" was borne out again last week by a Commerce Department analysis of urban demographic trends. The department forecast that by the year 2000, Los Angeles will surpass New York as the nation's largest metropolitan area, and that San Francisco will overtake Bridgeport, Conn., as the country's wealthiest. Los Angeles, which by 1982 had swept past Chicago to gain Second City status, is expected to swell to 8,870,000 regional residents. The San Francisco area will drop from 27th to 28th in population, with...
With irresistible force, the Cocos plate, which forms part of the Pacific floor off Mexico, is pushing northeastward at a rate of 2 to 4 1/2 in. a year against the North American plate, which is creeping westward. As the Cocos plate dips...
...Five, when the storm finally skulked westward and hammered into Mississippi, it was scarcely a subject for humor. Its pounding, 125-m.p.h. winds and satellite tornadoes devastated business districts and residential neighborhoods alike in Biloxi, Gulfport and Pascagoula. Approximately 1,400 commercial structures were damaged, along with at least 3,790 dwellings, leaving hundreds of people homeless and causing insured private-property losses of more than $350 million in Mississippi alone. During its wild meanderings, Hurricane Elena left behind an additional $13.8 million of insured private-property damages in Louisiana, $100.3 million in Alabama and $46.8 million in Florida...
Within its first decade, the movie industry had recapitulated America's century-long trek westward. In 1900, before the picturemakers arrived, Los Angeles was a sleepy city of 102,000 -- the population of Memphis or Omaha. But the immigrants could get drunk on the possibilities of all that air, desert, sea; ambition had elbow room there. And soon after settling in the Los Angeles suburb of Hollywood, the industry discovered the last element it needed to achieve dominance among the popular arts: movie stars. Two of them, by turning stereotypes of Everyman and Pretty Girl into archetypes, would become...
Early in the 19th century came the great flood of Irish (2 million between 1815 and 1860) and Germans (1.5 million), some driven westward by political persecution, more by hunger and hardship. Philip Hone, mayor of New York in the 1820s, regarded both the Irish and the Germans as "filthy, intemperate, unused to the comforts of life and regardless of its proprieties." "Nativists" in Philadelphia raided Irish Catholic churches and burned Irish homes...