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'''"Hooverville"''' was a name applied to [[shanty town]]s that arose during the [[Great Depression]]. Named after [[Herbert Hoover]] — the [[President of the United States]] at the time of the onset of the Depression — they were located all over [[United States|America]], and housed people made [[homeless]] by the economic downturn. One was even situated in the middle of [[Central Park]] in [[Manhattan]]. A man known as [[Solomon (Daleks in Manhattan)|Solomon]] acted as the unofficial leader. | '''"Hooverville"''' was a name applied to [[shanty town]]s that arose during the [[Great Depression]]. Named after [[Herbert Hoover]] — the [[President of the United States]] at the time of the onset of the Depression — they were located all over [[United States|America]], and housed people made [[homeless]] by the economic downturn. One was even situated in the middle of [[Central Park]] in [[Manhattan]]. A man known as [[Solomon (Daleks in Manhattan)|Solomon]] acted as the unofficial leader. | ||
The [[Tenth Doctor]] and [[Martha Jones]] visited the Hooverville in Central Park in [[1930]]. They helped investigate the | The [[Tenth Doctor]] and [[Martha Jones]] visited the Hooverville in Central Park in [[1930]]. They helped investigate the disappearance of many of its residents whilst working for Mr [[Diagoras]]. They found that they had been kidnapped and subjected to genetic experiments by the [[Cult of Skaro]] turning them into beings known as [[pig slave]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[Daleks in Manhattan (TV story)|Daleks in Manhattan]]'') | ||
Cult of Skaro members [[Dalek Caan]] and [[Dalek Jast|Jast]] attacked this Hooverville with a troop of pig slaves. When the attack began, [[Solomon (Daleks in Manhattan)|Solomon]] rallied the occupants of Hoovervile to defend the town, but as it became desperate he attempted a negotiation. He was exterminated by [[Dalek Caan]]. This act shocked [[Dalek Sec]], who had recently became a [[Human-Dalek]], causing him to interevene when Dalek Caan prepared to kill the Doctor. Sec agreed to the Doctor's demand that people of Hooverville be spared. The Doctor saved [[Laszlo]]'s life, after he became a [[pig slave]]. He lived in Hooverville with [[Tallulah]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Evolution of the Daleks (TV story)|Evolution of the Daleks]]'') | Cult of Skaro members [[Dalek Caan]] and [[Dalek Jast|Jast]] attacked this Hooverville with a troop of pig slaves. When the attack began, [[Solomon (Daleks in Manhattan)|Solomon]] rallied the occupants of Hoovervile to defend the town, but as it became desperate he attempted a negotiation. He was exterminated by [[Dalek Caan]]. This act shocked [[Dalek Sec]], who had recently became a [[Human-Dalek]], causing him to interevene when Dalek Caan prepared to kill the Doctor. Sec agreed to the Doctor's demand that people of Hooverville be spared. The Doctor saved [[Laszlo]]'s life, after he became a [[pig slave]]. He lived in Hooverville with [[Tallulah]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Evolution of the Daleks (TV story)|Evolution of the Daleks]]'') | ||
