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141022-6413DeanJagger
Dean Jagger was an actor who earned a supporting actor oscar for 1949's Twelve O'Clock High. He was in The Woman from Hell (1929) with Mary Astor, played Brigham Young (1940), and was in The Robe, White Christmas, Bad Day at Black Rock, and King Creole. He earned 2 Emmy nominations for his TV role in Mr. Novak, and won an Emmy for a guest appearance in the religious series This Is the Life. He played Caine's grandfather in an early episode of Kung Fu.
141022-6418MaxVerdaFoster
Max and Verda Foster started Foster Farms in 1939 by borrowing $1,000 against a life insurance policy. They invested in an 80-acre farm near Modesto, California, and began raising turkeys. In the beginning, Max worked at the Modesto newspaper to help support their young business while Verda concentrated on raising healthy chicks.
141022-6419FlorenceLeonaThompson
Florence Thompson was a 32-year old migrant pea-picker with six children in Nipomo when the famous photographer, Dorothea Lange, took 6 images of her with her children. The image is now known as "Migrant Mother", which you can google. Later in life, Florence preferred a trailer to the house her numerous childen bought for her.
141022-6422AndrewToti
Andrew Toti held more than 500 US patents at the time of his death. His most famous include the inflatable lifejacket (nicknamed the Mae West) sold to the military, an automated chicken plucker, and co-inventing the EndoFlex endotracheal tube. Toti owned and operated Tro-Pic-Kal Manufacturing Company of Modesto for approximately 60 years
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