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Industrial research
INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH. The emergence and growth of industrial research and development during the twentieth century must rank as one of the most important economic developments in modern American history. There is no doubt that technological innovation is the primary driver of... Read more |
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Raymond Thornton Chandler
Raymond Thornton Chandler 1888-1959, American author, b. Chicago, educated in England. After World War I, he entered the oil business in California. Bankrupt during the Depression, he published his first of many detective stories in The Black Mask magazine (1933). His novels include The Big... Read more |
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Spartanburg
Spartanburg city (1990 pop. 43,467), seat of Spartanburg co., NW S.C., in the Piedmont (see under piedmont ) near the N.C. line; inc. 1831. The city is noted for its textile production. It is an important commercial, transportation, and trade focus in an agriculture and livestock region.... Read more |
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Leninism
WAR COMMUNISM The Bolshevik Party seized power in Russia in October 1917. Historians use the term war communism for the economic system of Soviet Russia during the civil war that followed this revolution. This term, not used at the time, was first applied when the civil war had already drawn to a... Read more |
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Raymond Ames Spruance
Raymond Ames Spruance , 1886-1969, American admiral, b. Baltimore, Md. Commissioned in the navy in 1908, he reached the rank of rear admiral in 1939. In World War II he distinguished himself at the battle of Midway (1942) and became chief of staff to Admiral Chester W. Nimitz. As head of the fleet... Read more |
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Raymond Aron
Raymond Aron Raymond Aron (1905-1983) excelled as an academic scholar, teacher, and journalist. He applied the methods of sociology to the study of economics, international relations, ideology, and war. Raymond Aron was born in Paris, France, on March 14, 1905, the year that brought the... Read more |
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Jablonec nad Nisou
Jablonec nad Nisou, Czech Republic Gablonz an der Neisse According to legend, named after the only apple tree (in Czech, jablon) left standing after the area had been laid waste by the Catholic Lusatians during the Hussite Wars (1417–39). Nad Nisou means ‘On the (River)... Read more |
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John Bankhead Magruder
John Bankhead Magruder , 1810-71, Confederate general in the American Civil War, b. Winchester, Va. His reckless daring in the Mexican War won him quick promotion in the army. At the outbreak of the Civil War he resigned and was made colonel in the Confederate army. In June, 1861, he defeated... Read more |
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Brownsville
BROWNSVILLE AFFAIR BROWNSVILLE AFFAIR. African American troops have a symbiotic relationship to African Americans in the larger society. Racism and its fallout have been ever present throughout U.S. history. In 1906 the Brownsville affair demonstrated how racial stereotyping governed the unspoken... Read more |
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