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Union City

(Encyclopedia) Union City. 1 Residential city (1990 pop. 53,762), Alameda co., W Calif., in an agricultural region; inc. 1959 with the merger of Decoto and Alvarado districts. Metal, plastic, paper,…

Five-Year Plan

(Encyclopedia) Five-Year Plan, Soviet economic practice of planning to augment agricultural and industrial output by designated quotas for a limited period of usually five years. Nations other than…

Guelph, University of

(Encyclopedia) Guelph, University of, at Guelph, Ont., Canada; provincially supported; nondenominational; coeducational; founded 1964. It has a faculty of graduate studies and schools of hotel and…

Upland

(Encyclopedia) Upland, city (1990 pop. 63,374), San Bernardino co., S Calif., at the foot of the San Gabriel Mts.; inc. 1906. There is food processing, tool and die making, and the manufacture of…

Walt Whitman: Not Heat Flames Up and Consumes

Not Heat Flames Up and ConsumesNot heat flames up and consumes, Not sea-waves hurry in and out, Not the air delicious and dry, the air of ripe summer, bears lightly along white down-balls…

consumption

(Encyclopedia) consumption, in economics, direct utilization of goods and services by consumers, not including the use of means of production, such as machinery and factories (see capital).…

Banning

(Encyclopedia) Banning, resort city (2020 pop. 31,193), Riverside co., S Calif., in a fruit-growing area between Mt. San Jacinto and Mt. San Gorgonio;…