Word: lowland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mexico City, which makes tons of hormones out of a poisonous root found in the lowland jungles. Syntex's leading product, pregnenolone, is a synthetic steroid widely used as a substitute for scarce cortisone in the treatment of arthritis...
Young, Tall & Lean. The union men, most of them the young, tall, lean and laconic type which abounds in the east Tennessee hill country, didn't say much. They just piled into their cars and drove seven miles east to a valley called Lowland. They parked bumper-to-bumper close to a limp, dirty tent which was headquarters for the picket line. From there they could see the American Enka Corp.'s Lowland plant and almost hear the whir of machines turning out rayon yarn for automobile tires. For a while, at the end of March, Local...