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Show RAPID GROWTH Industry Expands in Far West NEW YORK. The Far West sec- tion of the United States has grown greatly in recent years in population, popula-tion, income, industrial stature and international importance, according accord-ing to a study in the Index, a quarterly quar-terly publication of the New York Trust company, just published. "World War II," the study says, "telescoped into a few years an industrial in-dustrial expansion in the Far West which might have taken several decades to accomplish even at the relatively fast rate of development some parts of the area had been enjoying." The war, it is pointed out, brought new factories and facilities to the region, accelerated development develop-ment of its raw materials, expanded expand-ed its power supply and increased its population, thereby adding both to its market potential and its labor supply. With its vast store of natural natu-ral resources and its rapidly increasing in-creasing population, the Far West looks forward to a continuing postwar post-war industrial growth through development de-velopment of new products and new markets." The seven states included in the study are Arizona, California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon. Utah and Washington. "The Far West," according to the article, "made the largest relative gains in population and income of all the areas of the United States during World War II, and has grown faster than the nation as a whole since 1939, increasing its population by 31 per cent as compared com-pared with a 7 per cent increase for the entire United States. Factory jobs in the Far West in the same period rose 68 per cent as com- , i pared with 46 per cent for the nation. na-tion. In food production, the in- crease in the Far West amounted to 25 per cent as compared with 23 per ; cent for the United States as a whole. "Continued expansion of industry appears to be of primary importance impor-tance to the progress of the Far West," the article concludes. "Its abundant natural resources, its cli- ' mate, its forest riches, its excellent harbors and its scenic beauties ( have been the chief contributing factors to its rapid growth in the j past. To accommodate and support a population increase in the future J comparable to that enjoyed so far in this century and particularly in the World War II period, would seem to require the broader economy econ-omy which its sustained industrial ( growth is furnishing.' t |