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That the principal exportable product of the Ohio Valley was grain did not help matters, as grain was a high-volume, low-priced commodity, frequently not worth the cost of transporting it to far-away population centers ( this was a factor leading to farmers in the west turning their grains into Whiskey for easier transport and higher sales, and later the Whiskey Rebellion ).
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its principal features should be a product of his most considered judgment.
The principal potential advantage would be that the finished product could be transported and stored at lower cost under refrigeration instead of being frozen.
The principal product of this region is certainly yerba mate.
Prices of coffee, the other principal export product, have been more variable.
Production of bauxite, traditionally the principal mining product, ceased in 1992.
The principal product of the oil in the 19th century was kerosene, which quickly replaced whale oil for illuminating purposes in the United States.
The widespread availability of cheaper kerosene was the principal factor in the precipitous decline in the whaling industry in the mid-to-late 19th century, as the leading product of whaling was oil for lamps.
#: Gaussian curvature is the product of the two principal curvatures.
Since the kth leading principal minor of a triangular matrix is the product of its diagonal elements up to row k, Sylvester's criterion is equivalent to checking whether its diagonal elements are all positive.
Maxim, who knew he had a good product, successfully sought a merger with Nordenfelt, with Zaharoff as the principal salesman with a fat commission rate.
The principal agricultural product of St. Kitts is sugarcane ; peanuts are now the second crop.
The Gaussian curvature, named after Carl Friedrich Gauss, is equal to the product of the principal curvatures, k < sub > 1 </ sub > k < sub > 2 </ sub >.
General Mills had challenged a team of new product developers to use the available manufacturing capacity from either of General Mills ' two principal cereal products — Wheaties or Cheerios — and do something unique to them.
Automated Teller Machines ( ATMs ) are now NCR's principal product line.
Other oil boom towns located in Venango County included Franklin, Oil City, and the now defunct Pithole City The principal product of the oil was kerosene.
The principal product of Wauregan was cotton sheeting.
Named as a portmanteau formed from the township and the principal product, lumber, a post office operated here from February 27, 1884, until May 31, 1905.
Due to the characteristic entrywise procedure, this operation is identical to many multiplying ordinary numbers ( mn of them ) all at once-hence the Hadamard product is commutative, associative and distributive over addition, and is a principal submatrix of the Kronecker product.
It was shown that while rings of algebraic integers do not always have unique factorization into primes ( because they need not be principal ideal domains ), they do have the property that every proper ideal admits a unique factorization as a product of prime ideals ( that is, every ring of algebraic integers is a Dedekind domain ).
Banks also undertake risk through proprietary trading, performed by a special set of traders who do not interface with clients and through " principal risk "— risk undertaken by a trader after he buys or sells a product to a client and does not hedge his total exposure.
Financial control tracks and analyzes the capital flows of the firm, the Finance division is the principal adviser to senior management on essential areas such as controlling the firm's global risk exposure and the profitability and structure of the firm's various businesses via dedicated trading desk product control teams.
The external design of the car was a product of Herd's use of Mallite sheeting ( a wood-aluminium laminate composite ) for the principal structural monocoque sections, a technique he pioneered on the first McLaren single-seat cars, including the McLaren M2B of 1966.
The correlation between the price of cotton ( the principal product of the area at that time ) and the number of lynchings of Black men by Whites ranged from-0. 63 to-0. 72, suggesting that a poor economy induced White people to take out their frustrations by attacking an outgroup.
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This gave the British control of the Ohio Country, which had been the principal cause of the war.
United States Senate | Sen. John Sherman ( Ohio ) | John Sherman ( Republican Party ( United States ) | R — List of United States Senators from Ohio | OH ), the principal author of the Sherman Antitrust Act.
From 1790-1834, Cave-In-Rock was the principal outlaw lair and headquarters of river pirate activity in the Ohio River region.
The Allegheny River () is a principal tributary of the Ohio River ; it is located in the Eastern United States.
During the 19th century, the river became a principal means of navigation in the upper Ohio valley, especially for the transport of coal.
* September 24, 1937: Toledo, Ohio 12-year-old Robert Snyder shot and wounded his principal, June Mapes, in her office at Arlington public school when she declined his request to call a classmate.
A historic college town, Athens is home to Ohio University ( 22, 000 + students ) and is the principal city of the Athens, Ohio Micropolitan Statistical Area.
In the Midwestern United States, particularly Ohio, bell peppers are frequently called " mangoes ", particularly when referring to stuffed peppers ( of which bell peppers are a principal ingredient.
It is also the hometown of Hoyt L. Sherman, one of artist Roy Lichtenstein's principal art professor / mentors at The Ohio State University.
It is the principal city of and is included in the Lima, Ohio Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is included in the Lima-Van Wert – Wapakoneta, Ohio Combined Statistical Area.
It is the principal city of and is included in the Wapakoneta, Ohio Micropolitan S A, which is included in the Lima-Van Wert-Wapakoneta, Ohio CSA.
By the late 1770s, Coshocton had become the principal Lenape ( Delaware ) village in the Ohio Country.
Kirtland is named for Turhand Kirtland, a principal of the Connecticut Land Company and judge in Trumbull County, the first political entity in Ohio that included Kirtland township.
It is the principal city of and is included in the Van Wert Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is included in the Lima-Van Wert-Wapakoneta, Ohio Combined Statistical Area.
These priests formed the Society of St. Pius V. Dolan continued his work at his principal church in West Chester, Ohio.
In August and September he was present at unity meetings in the Detroit area, and on 7 September at Lower Sandusky Ohio was a principal speaker at an Indian council attended by Wyandots, Delawares, Shawnees, Cherokees, Ojibwas, Ottawas, and Mingos.
* John Bingham: U. S. Representative from Ohio and principal framer of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
The religious public had become impressed with the growing importance of the great west ; a theological seminary had been founded at Walnut Hills, near Cincinnati, Ohio, and named Lane Theological Seminary, after one of its principal benefactors, and a large amount of money was pledged to the institution on condition that Beecher accept the presidency, which he did in 1832.
After teaching at Hopkins Grammar School from 1872 – 73, he engaged in study and private teaching in Columbus, Ohio, 1873 – 74, then served as principal of Lancaster ( Ohio ) High School 1874-75.
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