id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-104 California - Wikipedia .html text/html 27452 3926 70 California manufactured 8.7 percent of total United States military armaments produced during World War II, ranking third (behind New York and Michigan) among the 48 states.[79] California however easily ranked first in production of military ships during the war (transport, cargo, [merchant ships] such as Liberty ships, Victory ships, and warships) at drydock facilities in San Diego, Los Angeles, and the San Francisco Bay Area.[80][81][82][83] After World War II, California's economy greatly expanded due to strong aerospace and defense industries,[84] whose size decreased following the end of the Cold War.[84][85] Stanford University and its Dean of Engineering Frederick Terman began encouraging faculty and graduates to stay in California instead of leaving the state, and develop a high-tech region in the area now known as Silicon Valley.[86] As a result of these efforts, California is regarded as a world center of the entertainment and music industries, of technology, engineering, and the aerospace industry, and as the United States center of agricultural production.[87] Just before the Dot Com Bust, California had the fifth-largest economy in the world among nations.[88] Yet since 1991, and starting in the late 1980s in Southern California, California has seen a net loss of domestic migrants in most years. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-104.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-104.txt