Word: belcamp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the help of Thomas Jr., until 1939. Then, just before the Nazis took over Czechoslovakia, both fled the country. Thomas went to Canada, where he started a huge new Bata factory at "Batawa" near Frankford, Ont.; Jan came to the U.S., where he started a factory at Belcamp, Md. Muska had also fled, taking the Leader shares with him, but telling neither Jan nor Thomas about them. Not until 1942 did Muska privately reveal the existence of the shares. By that time, Jan had been blacklisted by the U.S. and Britain for playing footie with the Nazis...
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