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Velma Powell 1906 - 1982

Velma Powell of Shasta Lake, Shasta County, California was born on June 2, 1906, and died at age 76 years old in July 1982.
Velma Powell
Shasta Lake, Shasta County, California 96089
June 2, 1906
July 1982
Female
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Velma Powell's History: 1906 - 1982

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    1906

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    June 2, 1906
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    1982

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    July 1982
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    Velma Powell lived 5 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 76.
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In 1906, in the year that Velma Powell was born, author Upton Sinclair exposed the public-health threat of the meat-packing industry in his book The Jungle. While his intent was to show the lives of exploited lives of immigrants in Chicago and other industrialized cities, most people were horrified by how the meat that ended up on their tables was handled. There was such an outcry that legislation was passed to regulate meat packing. Sinclair said " "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach."
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In 1942, Velma was 36 years old when on June 17th, Roosevelt approved the Manhattan Project, which lead to the development of the first atomic bomb. With the support of Canada and the United Kingdom, the Project came to employ more than 130,000 people and cost nearly $2 billion. Julius Robert Oppenheimer, a nuclear physicist born in New York, led the Los Alamos Laboratory that developed the actual bomb. The first artificial nuclear explosion took place near Alamogordo New Mexico on July 16, 1945.
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