Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public WorksPublisher:
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Category : Allegheny River (Pa. and N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Allegheny River at Salamanca, New York. Letter from the Secretary of the Army Transmitting a Letter from the Chief of Engineers, Department of the Army, Dated January 4, 1961, Submitting a Report, Together with Accompanying Papers and Illustrations, on a Review of Report on Allegheny River at Salamanca, New York, Requested by Resolutions of the Committees on Public Works, United States Senate and House of Representatives, Adopted May 9 and July 6, 1949
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public WorksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Allegheny River (Pa. and N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Allegheny River at Salamanca, New York
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Allegheny River (Pa. and N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Allegheny River at Salamanca, New York
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Category : Allegheny River (Pa. and N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
The National Union Catalogs, 1963-
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
The Money Game in Old New York
Author: Clifford BrowderPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813162246
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
"I got to be a millionaire afore I know'd it hardly," remarked the Wall Street financier Daniel Drew (1797-1879). An uneducated farm boy from Putnam County, New York, he became in turn a successful cattle drover, a circus clown, tavern keeper, a shrewd Hudson River steamboat operator, and an unscrupulous speculator. As the colorful "Uncle Daniel" of Wall Street-his whiskered face seamed with wrinkles and twinkling with steel-gray eyes -- time and again he disrupted the financial markets with manipulations whereby he either won or lost millions of dollars. Having "got religion" upon hearing a scary hell-fire sermon at the age of fourteen, Drew was also a fervent Methodist. Rumors of his financial operations--epic struggles that pitted him against Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jay Gould, and Jim Fisk, and that subjected him to threats of arrest and even kidnapping, and on one occasion to a most undignified flight from the state-baffled and disturbed the Methodists, who admittedly had little grasp of Wall Street but knew firsthand Brother Drew's tearful repentance at prayer meetings and his generosity in founding churches and seminaries. With its dual commitment to religion and rascality, Drew's career is a rich study in contradictions, an exciting chronicle of high drama and low comedy capped by bankruptcy. To understand Drew in his complexity, the author argues, is to get a grip on the heady and exploitative age that produced him -- the yesterday of "smartness" and "go ahead" that helped engender the America of today. Based on primary sources, this is the first full-fledged biography of Drew, who hitherto has been known chiefly through a fictionalized and fraudulent account of 1910.
The State of Alaska
Author: Ernest GrueningPublisher:
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Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Main Street and Wall Street
Author: William Zebina RipleyPublisher:
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Category : Corporations
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
The Cornell Alumni News
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Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
The Sun Recorded Through History
Author: J.M. VaqueroPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0387927905
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
The Sun is nowadays observed using di?erent techniques that provide an almost instantaneous 3-D map of its structure. Of particular interest is the studyofthevariabilityinthesolaroutputproducedbythedissipationofm- netic energy on di?erent spatial and temporal scales – the so-called magnetic activity. The 11-year cycle is the main feature describing this phenomenon. Apart from its intrinsic scienti?c interest, this topic is worth studying because of the interaction of such processes with the terrestrial environment. A ?eet of space and ground-based observatories are currently monitoring the behaviour of our star on a daily basis. However, solar activity varies not only on this decadal time-scale, as has been attested mainly through two methods: (a) records of the number of sunspots observed on the solar surface from 1610, and (b) the records of 14 10 cosmogenic isotopes, such as Cand Be, measured in tree-rings and i- cores, respectively. The study of the long-term behaviour of solar activity may be comp- mented by the study of historical accounts describing phenomena directly or indirectly related to solar activity. Numerous scienti?c and non-scienti?c d- uments have reported these events and we can make use of them as a proxy of solar activity in past times.
Tin Pan Alley
Author: David A. JasenPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135949018
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
For nearly a century, New York's famous "Tin Pan Alley" was the center of popular music publishing in this country. It was where songwriting became a profession, and songs were made-to-order for the biggest stars. Selling popular music to a mass audience from coast-to-coast involved the greatest entertainment media of the day, from minstrelsy to Broadway, to vaudeville, dance palaces, radio, and motion pictures. Successful songwriting became an art, with a host of men and women becoming famous by writing famous songs.
