Word: slaves
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University of Vienna), the only Negro in his class at DePauw University, where he was valedictorian (and a classmate of David Lilienthal), is the highly paid chief of soyabean research for Chicago's Glidden Co. In that job and earlier, Percy Julian, the grandson of an Alabama slave, had made world-famous chemical discoveries. They ranged from processes for the synthetic manufacture of important body-regulating hormones (e.g., testosterone, progesterone) to a foam fire extinguisher which saved many U.S. naval vessels in World...
...most amazing jackpots in the history of the entertainment business. The old Hoppy movies had never sent any motion-picture audiences home with stars in their eyes, but they electrified the junior television slave. Because children like their stories repeated, the films have increased steadily in popularity, even though some are now being televised for the third time. Almost overnight, Boyd found himself a hero-and a hero with the Midas touch...
...From there, it is a long haul to the Ural mills, to say nothing of the mills in European Russia. The steel mills of central Russia must transport their ores and coal from the Ukraine in the south and from the war-developed mine at Vorkuta (also a famed slave-labor camp) on the Arctic Circle...
...wide apart (see above). Russia has five main industrial regions: north western European Russia (Moscow, Leningrad, Gorky); the Ukraine (Kiev, Krivoi Rog, Dneprostroi) ; the newer industrial complex just behind the Urals (Sverdlovsk, Magnitogorsk, etc.); the Kuznetsk Basin (Novosibirsk, Stalinsk, etc.); and the scattered mills, mines, army bases and slave-labor camps near the Pacific. Despite a widespread belief in the West that Russia's industrial trend is toward "safety behind the Urals," there is evidence that about 1947, Stalin & Co. hardheadedly concluded that U.S. bombers could strike behind the Urals almost as easily as in the Ukraine...
...fact, Randolph Hall (now Adams D--I entries) allegedly has chambers in the basement known as the "slave quarters"; here the personal valets of the Indian princes and maharajas supposedly kept inventory of "Master's" persian rugs and stock of incense...