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1834–1906, American merchant, b. Conway, Mass. In 1856, after five years’ apprenticeship in a general store in Pittsfield, Mass., he went to Chica...
1895–1986, American economist, administrator of the Office of Price Administration (1941–42), b. Millville, N.J. An official of the Russell Sage F...
1905–89, British economist. A statistics professor at Cambridge Univ. (1931–37), he taught in Australia and Great Britain until 1952, serving as e...
1911–97, American organic chemist and educator, b. St. Paul, Minn., grad. Michigan College of Mining and Technology, 1931, Ph.D. Univ. of Minnesota,...
(äl ks ´ b nwä´ swäy ´) (KEY) , 1809–58, French chef and writer on gastronomy and dietary reform. After the Revolution of 1830 he went to Lond...
(p st r´, Fr. lw pästör´) (KEY) , 1822–95, French chemist. He taught at Dijon, Strasbourg, and Lille, and in Paris at the École normale supér...