25. The reason the group is called 'The Oak Ridge Boys' is because they formed in Oak Ridge, TN. in the mid 1940s. What was going on in Oak Ridge, TN. at the time the, then Oak Ridge Quartet, formed?
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Answer:
The atomic bomb was being manufactured
In January 1943, there was no Oak Ridge - no town, no name, and no people. Only two months earlier the Army had designated 59,000 acres of land in a valley between the Cumberland and Smoky Mountain ranges, the center of which was about eighteen miles west of Knoxville, TN., as the Kingston Demolition Range, and all 3,000 residents of the settlements like Scarboro, Robertsville, and Wheat had been evacuated. A few construction workers had arrived in November of 1942, and at their suggestion the place was named Oak Ridge, after Black Oak Ridge, one of the five pine-and-oak covered ridges in the area. Within two years, 75,000 people had moved there, and nobody, not even the majority of the new residents, knew why! But from the tight security at the guard gates, it was obvious the military was involved in a secret project. It was secret, all right! It was the best kept secret of World War II. It was the Manhattan Project...the atom bomb!
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