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1929
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Marie Curie came to the United States for the second time in October of 1929. Her purpose for the visit was the same; she was to receive a gift of radium from the people of America. This time Marie Curie needed the radium to give to a new Polish Radium Institute in Warsaw. There was considerably less fanfare on the second visit for several reasons. First, she did not receive the radium itself. She was presented with a bank draft for $50,000. Notice that in the 8years since her previous visit the price of radium had dropped from $100,000 per gram to $50,000 per gram.
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In 1929 Fred Beal was a thirty-three-year-old New Englander, fleshy, red-haired, and "heavy-faced." seemingly unconscious that he is a big man hereabouts." Sophie Melvin, who worked with him in Gastonia, described him as "sweet and gentle," with a feeling both for his work and the people he dealt with. "Sweetness" was hardly a usual characteristic for a union organizer in the hostile south, but in other ways Beal was well qualified for the task. He had been a textile worker since the age of fourteen, when he started at a mill in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Beal had joined the International Workers of the World (IWW) in his youth, and in the 1920s he had shifted to the Socialists, not the Communists.
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In 1929, at the start of the Great Depression, the company established the Byron Jackson Oil Tool Division after acquiring the Dunn Manufacturing Company and some other, smaller companies engaged in manufacturing oil-field tools. It ... purchased the Pacific Cementing Company and commenced servicing drilling operations in the Los Angeles Basin in southern California. Three years later, in 1932, it put the Chemical Process Company in operation in Breckenridge, Texas, where it specialized in oil-well acidizing. Then, in 1938, with new oil-field strikes in the Mid-Continent and Permian Basin regions, BJ built a new manufacturing plant in Houston, its future home base. Two years later, amidst World War II, it also entered into an arrangement with Baker Oil Tools, Schlumberger, and Dowell to provide joint oil-field cementing services under the conglomerate name International Cementers Inc.
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About IPST: Founded in 1929, the Institute of Paper Science and Technology (IPST) has established itself as the premier institute for the advanced study of pulp and papermaking processes in the United States. IPST is a privately funded graduate research institute whose scientific and educational purpose evolves from its unique relationship with the pulp and paper industry. The multidisciplinary program emphasizes chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, chemistry, biology, physics, and other natural sciences. The Institute has a student to faculty ratio of 3:1, offering students direct access to the Institute's faculty members and researchers, many of whom are world-renowned for their commitment to innovation, education, and research. Commercialization, not publication, is the end result of research at IPST, which was recently ranked the 5th most innovative research institution in the United States by the Research Foundation of the State University of New York.
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Sonny James -- Born James Hugh Loden on May 1, 1929 in Hackleburg, Ala. (95 miles northwest of Birmingham), the boy who would grow up to be known as "The Southern Gentleman" was raised on a 300-acre farm. Between 1960 and 1979, James' singles spent an incredible 57 weeks in the No. 1 position -- more than any other Country artist. Both of his parents were musicians, and his older sister Thelma was a singer and guitarist. With such a musical household, the family regularly performed together on Saturday nights at the homes of friends, incorporating young James at age 3 by teaching him to sing and play a homemade mandolin made from a molasses bucket.
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On Friday, August 23, 1929, that tranquility was lost. Arab youths started throwing rocks at the yeshiva students. That afternoon, one student, Shmuel Rosenholtz, went to the yeshiva alone. Arab rioters later broke in and killed him, and that was only the beginning.
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