Word: intermountain
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Dates: during 1979-1979
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...Midwest grain belt and the far West prospered, largely because a hungry world increased its call for what America produces best: food. Average farm incomes increased 117% from 1970 to $23,263 per family in 1978 and are higher now. The region that fared best of all was the intermountain West because it is a trove of oil, gas, coal, shale and almost all the increasingly precious energy resources. Construction cranes climbed like church spires in Denver, Salt Lake City and other booming communities...
Some fortunate parts of the country may not feel the recession at all. The Southwest and Intermountain West continue to surge, largely because of high demand for their energy resources; the Southeast is also generaly well off. But heavy industry areas of the Northeast and Upper Midwest, which rely largely on cyclical businesses, probably will take it on the chin...
...present glut of the fuel and help lift production from its current level of only about 650 million tons last year to the 1.2 billion-ton 1985 goal that Carter set for the industry in his first energy address two years ago. In the semiarid reaches of the intermountain West, where treasure troves of coal lie almost on the surface just waiting to be scraped up and hauled away, whole new towns would have to be built to house the workers employed at mines and synfuel plants. Residents of the region regard such a boom as a mixed blessing...