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Andrew J. Toti (24 July 1915 – 20 March 2005) was an American inventor [1].Toti was born in Visalia, California, and died in Modesto, California [1].He held more than 500 U.S. patents at the time of his death [1].
Robert Carl Baker (December 29, 1921 – March 13, 2006) was an American inventor and Cornell University professor. He invented the chicken nugget as well as many other poultry-related inventions. Due to his contributions to the poultry sciences, he is a member of the American Poultry Hall of Fame.
The Helene Fuld Health Trust is the largest charitable trust in the United States devoted exclusively to supporting student nurses and nursing education. The trust — which began as a foundation in 1935, but transferred its assets to the trust in 1969 — has provided grants, scholarships, and financial aid for the education, health, and welfare of student nurses.
In the early 1950s, approximately the same time as Colonel Harlan Sanders began franchising his KFC restaurant chain, Phelan developed the broasting method of cooking chicken, for which he invented a modified commercial-grade pressure cooker. [clarification needed] He founded the Broaster Company in 1954 to manufacture and market the machines.
He also founded the Mind Science Foundation in San Antonio in 1958 to do consciousness research. Tom assisted his brother, Earl F. Slick, in founding Slick Airways, one of the first US scheduled freight airlines. [3] [4] In 1955 he was awarded a patent for the lift slab method of constructing concrete buildings. [5] He was an advocate of world ...
Lonnie Alfred "Bo" Pilgrim (May 8, 1928 – July 21, 2017) was the co-founder of Pilgrim's Pride, which at one time was one of the largest chicken producers in the United States. Pilgrim founded Pilgrim's Pride when he opened a feed store in 1946 in Pittsburg, Texas , with his older brother, Aubrey.
James Henry "Red" Duke, Jr. (November 16, 1928 – August 25, 2015) was a trauma surgeon and professor at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center, where he worked on-site since 1972.
Charles Drew Health Foundation, East Palo Alto, California, 1960s–2000, was the community's only clinic for decades. Charles Drew Community Health Center, located in Burlington, NC near the site of the old Alamance County hospital. Charles Drew Pre-Health Society, University of Rochester; Charles R Drew Wellness Center in Columbia, South ...