Word: scrapheap
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Carver had one great objective: to free the South from industrial bondage to the North. With tools originally assembled from scrapheap oddments, he developed more than 300 synthetic products from peanuts, including cheese, soap, flour and linoleum, and more than 100 products from the sweet potato. "I go into the laboratory," he once said, "and God tells me what...