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[[ | [[File:Hooverville.jpg|250px|thumb|Hooverville in the middle of [[Central Park]] ([[DW]]: ''[[Daleks in Manhattan]]'')]] | ||
'''"Hooverville"''' was a name applied to shanty towns 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]] acted as the unofficial leader. | '''"Hooverville"''' was a name applied to shanty towns 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]] acted as the unofficial leader. | ||
==History== | == History == | ||
The [[Tenth Doctor]] and [[Martha Jones]] visited the "Hooverville" in Central Park in [[1930]],. They | The [[Tenth Doctor]] and [[Martha Jones]] visited the "Hooverville" in Central Park in [[1930]],. They helped investigate the disappearence 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. | ||
Cult of Skaro members [[Dalek Caan]] and [[Dalek Thay|Thay]] attacked this Hooverville with a troop of pig slaves. When the attack began, [[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]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Daleks in Manhattan]]'', ''[[Evolution of the Daleks]]'') | Cult of Skaro members [[Dalek Caan]] and [[Dalek Thay|Thay]] attacked this Hooverville with a troop of pig slaves. When the attack began, [[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]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Daleks in Manhattan]]'', ''[[Evolution of the Daleks]]'') | ||
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