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Wisconsin Central Transportation Corp
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dairying
dairying business of producing, processing, and distributing milk and milk products. Ninety percent of the world's milk is obtained from cows; the remainder comes from goats, buffaloes, sheep, reindeer, yaks, and other ruminants. In the United States, dairy products account for nearly 16% of the... Read more |
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Marinette
Marinette, Wisconsin/USA Named after the daughter of a Menominee chief, Marinette Jacobs. Her name was a combination of Marie and Antoinette.... Read more |
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University of Wisconsin
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN. The origins of higher education in Wisconsin came in the provision of the new state's 1848 constitution mandating the founding of a public, nonsectarian institution of higher learning, financed by the sale of the state's designated public lands.... Read more |
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Wisconsin (river)
Wisconsin river, c.430 mi (690 km) long, rising in the lake district, NE Wis., and flowing generally SW across central Wis. to the Mississippi River near Prairie du Chien. At Portage it is connected by a short canal with the Fox River, and thus with Lake Michigan. There are many hydroelectric... Read more |
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Alvan Clark
Alvan Clark 1804-87, American astronomer and maker of astronomical lenses, b. Ashfield, Mass. In 1846 the firm of Alvan Clark & Sons was established at Cambridgeport, Mass.; it became famous as the manufacturer of the largest and finest telescope lenses. The first achromatic lenses made in the... Read more |
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Arnold Schwarzenegger
Schwarzenegger, Arnold 1947–(Arnold Strong) PERSONALFull name, Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger; born July 30, 1947, in Graz (some sources cite Thal), Austria; immigrated to the United States, 1968, naturalized U.S. citizen, 1983; son of Gustav (a police chief) and Aurelia (maiden name, Jadrny)... Read more |
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Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company 720 East Wisconsin AvenueMilwaukee, Wisconsin 53202-4797U.S.A.Telephone: (414) 271-1444Fax: (414) 299-7022Web site: http://www.northwesternmutual.com Mutual Company Incorporated: 1857 as Mutual Life Insurance Companyof the State of WisconsinEmployees:... Read more |
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Manitowoc
Manitowoc, Wisconsin/USA Established as a trading post in 1795, the name probably comes from an Algonquian word meaning ‘Abode of the Great Spirit’.... Read more |
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Menasha
Menasha, Wisconsin/USA Settled in 1843, its name comes from a Winnebago word for ‘island’. It lies opposite an island in the Fox River.... Read more |
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Observatories
...example, when the former Wisconsin governor Cadwallader C. Washburn...observatory to the University of Wisconsin in 1877, he specified that its...half inch. The rise of business fortunes in the Gilded Age enabled...Observatory, at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, to ... |
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Bardeen, John
...Bardeen was born in Madison, Wisconsin, where his father, George...dean of the University of Wisconsin Medical School. After earning...electrical engineering at Wisconsin, Bardeen worked for three...Bardeen continued to consult for businesses after his ... |
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Agricultural Experiment Stations
...as farmers, agricultural businesses, and state and federal legislators...such as William A. Henry of Wisconsin, Eugene Davenport of Illinois...butterfat content of milk at the Wisconsin experiment station, resulting...Elmer V. McCollum at the Wisconsin ... |
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Dairy Industry and Dairy Products
...all cheese was made in factories and Wisconsin had displaced New York as the banner cheese...Stephen M. Babcock at the University of Wisconsin, provided a more accurate test of milk quality...driven by the imperatives of “big business” toward growth and restructuring... |
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Progressive Party of 1912–1924
...midwestern Insurgents, led by the Wisconsin senator Robert M. La Follette...taxation, conservation, business regulation, the direct election...popular vote but carried only Wisconsin and North Dakota. His major...against Calvin Coolidge's business‐oriented ... |
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Middle West, The
...Nebraska, North and South Dakota, and Wisconsin. People in the plains sections of Colorado...Shield extend into parts of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan, and eroded hill lands...lumber, and other resources at hand, a business mentality came to dominate the culture... |
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Conservatism
...federal government with the business classes, but the Federalists also...increasingly under the influence of business interests that made defense of...against state regulation of business activity. This libertarian and...anticommunism. In 1950, the Wisconsin ... |
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Granger Laws
...places and persons, formed illegal business combinations, and gave free passes...legislatures, aided by spokesmen for certain business interests, pushed through legislation in Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota that collectively...for state regulation of a variety of ... |
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La Follette, Robert Marion
...was a Republican congressman (1885–91) and governor of Wisconsin (1900–06). His progressive administration carried out...fought for workers and farmers against Republican-supported business. He was chosen as Progressive presidential candidate before... |
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Hecht, Ben
...1894–1964), playwright. Born in New York and raised in Wisconsin, Hecht made unsuccessful attempts at becoming an acrobat...reporting, The Front Page. The twosome also wrote the show business comedy Twentieth Century (1932), the book for the musical... |
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Gideon Bibles
...hospitals and other places by an organization of Christian business and professional men and their wives. The Gideons were founded by a group of commercial travellers in Janesville, Wisconsin, in 1899; they took their name from Gideon, whose victory... |
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STATE NEEDS SOLID MARKETING EFFORT TO ATTRACT BUSINESSES WISCONSIN IS MORE...
...probably don't know that Wisconsin does a poor job of marketing itself as a business location. Oh, sure...to nothing about what Wisconsin has to offer beyond...not a suggestion that Wisconsin try to spend toe-to...calls, a basic in any ... |
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STATE LAGS IN TECH BUSINESSES WISCONSIN MUST STOP THE BRAIN DRAIN, AN...
...college graduates leave Wisconsin upon graduation. Keeping...is the key to helping business grow and attracting new employers to Wisconsin,'' Hefty said. Part...looking to the future. ``Wisconsin businesses are not penetrating the... |
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Recent Expansion Of The Definition Of "Doing Business" In Wisconsin's...
...current version of section 71.22(1r) of the Wisconsin Statutes, corporations and limited liability...Internal Revenue Code are deemed to be "doing business in Wisconsin" for Wisconsin tax purposes if, among other activities, those... |
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Cost of doing business in Wisconsin is low, report says.
...respectively. "Wisconsin comes out relatively...and really mine where Wisconsin and where greater Milwaukee...hunting with a rifle for business expansion opportunities...Sheehy said, are businesses that draw most of ... |
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FIREWORKS BUSINESS IN WISCONSIN IS BOOMING.(Business)
...considered yourself lucky. But in Wisconsin, roadside fireworks stands are...Roman candles have become big business in Wisconsin. There are fireworks stands...still technically illegal in Wisconsin. Statutes here and in surrounding... |
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STATE WIDENS PHARMACY RULES OUT-OF-STATE PHARMACIES MUST GET LICENSE TO DO...
...pharmacists to be licensed by Wisconsin --just the pharmacies...pharmacy during regular business hours and for at least 40...the Pharmacy Society of Wisconsin, said supporters wanted to make sure Wisconsin consumers had a way to resolve... |
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State widens pharmacy rules: Out-of-state pharmacies must get license to do...
...pharmacists to be licensed by Wisconsin -just the pharmacies...pharmacy during regular business hours and for at least 40...the Pharmacy Society of Wisconsin, said supporters wanted to make sure Wisconsin consumers had a way to resolve... |
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WMC Wins Landmark Free Speech Case for Businesses; Wisconsin Supreme Court...
...7 /PRNewswire/ -- The Wisconsin Supreme Court Wednesday ruled that Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce...S. Haney, president of Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce, a 4,700-member business group. "The freedom to...rights in this country, and ... |
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ILLINOIS RESIDENT PREVIOUSLY BARRED FROM CONDUCTING TRAVEL RELATED BUSINESS...
...running a travel related business at the Country Thunder USA...activities in the state of Wisconsin. The temporary restraining...related services to over 100 Wisconsin residents by making sales...various motels in southern Wisconsin. The presentations ... |
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DOWNTOWN TOMAHAWK BUSINESS RECEIVES WISCONSIN HOUSING & ECONOMIC...
...thanks to a Small Business Guarantee from the Wisconsin Housing and Economic...Critter Center, 23 W. Wisconsin Avenue, Wednesday...a need for strong businesses in its downtown area...WHEDA on another Small Business Guarantee in Merrill. An ... |
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