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1885–1972, American economist, b. McLean County, Ill., Ph.D. Cornell Univ., 1916. He taught economics at the Univ. of Chicago (1927–62). Knight’...
1858–1940, English economist and journalist. He achieved wide popularity as a lecturer and writer. Criticizing classical economics, which centered o...
1797–1872, American merchant and transcontinental railroad projector, b. North Groton, Conn. He entered the mercantile business in New York City, ac...
(k mär´ j v ) (KEY) , 344–413, Buddhist scholar and missionary, b. Kucha, in what is now Xinjiang, China. When his mother, a Kuchean princess, bec...
(äl´d r) (KEY) , 1902–58, German chemist, educated at Berlin and at Kiel. He was on the research staff of the Bayer Dye Works (1936–40) before b...
1854–1932, American inventor, industrialist, and philanthropist, b. Waterville, N.Y. By mass production of his photographic inventions, Eastman enor...