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(d pô´) (KEY) , 1822–87, American manufacturer, b. Salem, Ind. At first successful at banking, he later established a plate-glass works at New Alb...
(oig n´ böm´-bä´v rk) (KEY) , 1851–1914, Austrian economist. Three times minister of finance (1895, 1897, and 1900), he initiated important tax...
d. A.D. 64? or 67?, the apostle to the Gentiles, b. Tarsus, Asia Minor. He was a Jew. His father was a Roman citizen, probably of some means, and Paul...
(h r´män h n´r kh gô´s n) (KEY) , 1810–58, German economist, little known in his lifetime. His work, Entwicklung der Gesetze des menschlichen V...
(m yär´) (KEY) , 1872–1940, Swiss engineer, renowned for his inventive and beautiful reinforced-concrete bridges. Maillart’s basic structural pr...
1859–1926, American prison reformer, b. Auburn, N.Y., grad. Harvard, 1884. As chairman (1913) of the state commission on prison reform he became a v...