Editing Alma, Arkansas (section)

==History==
Alma was incorporated in 1874. Its economy was largely agricultural until the introduction of the canning industry.  Today, the city claims the title of "[[Spinach]] Capital of the World".

In his book ''Washington Goes to War'' (1996), [[David Brinkley]] described Alma's participation in the World War II effort:
<blockquote>
In the town of Alma, Arkansas (population 776), one-fourth of the girls in the 1944 high school graduating class signed up to leave for [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]], and several of their teachers cast aside their low-paying jobs and went with them, all of them climbing aboard a [[Pullman (car or coach)|Pullman car]] for their first train ride, looking for more money and excitement than they had any reasonable expectation of finding in Alma.<ref>{{Cite book
| publisher = A.A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House
| isbn = 0394510259
| last = Brinkley
| first = David
| title = Washington Goes to War
| location = New York
| year = 1988
| url-access = registration
| url = https://archive.org/details/washingtongoesto00brin
}}</ref>
</blockquote> Many people migrated from small towns to the capital seeking jobs as the government and associated businesses expanded to run the war effort.