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Grant Parish LA Economic Statistics

SubjectNumberPercent EMPLOYMENT STATUSPopulation 16 years and over14,002100.0In labor force7,68554.9Civilian labor force7,64454.6Employed7,11250.8Unemployed5323.8Percent of civilian labor…

Grant Parish LA Housing Statistics

SubjectNumberPercent Total housing units8,531100.0UNITS IN STRUCTURE1-unit, detached5,71166.91-unit, attached270.32 units991.23 or 4 units350.45 to 9 units610.710 to 19 units00.020 or more…

Donen, Stanley

(Encyclopedia) Donen, Stanley, 1924–2019, American film director, choreographer, and producer, b. Columbia, S.C. He is best known for directing some of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's finest musicals. In 1940…

Tenure of Office Act

(Encyclopedia) Tenure of Office Act, in U.S. history, measure passed on Mar. 2, 1867, by Congress over the veto of President Andrew Johnson; it forbade the President to remove any federal…

Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University

(Encyclopedia) Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, at Tallahassee; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered and opened 1887; predominantly African American. It has…

Oklahoma State University

(Encyclopedia) Oklahoma State University, at Stillwater; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1890, opened 1891 as Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College, renamed 1957. It…

Cline, Patsy

(Encyclopedia) Cline, Patsy, 1932–63, American country singer, b. Winchester, Va., as Virginia Patterson Hensley. She began singing locally while still in her teens and signed her first recording…

John of the Cross, Saint

(Encyclopedia) John of the Cross, Saint, Span. Juan de la Cruz, 1542–91, Spanish mystic and poet, Doctor of the Church. His name was originally Juan de Yepes. He was a founder of the Discalced…

Bowen, Elizabeth

(Encyclopedia) Bowen, ElizabethBowen, Elizabethbōˈĭn [key], 1899–1973, Anglo-Irish novelist, b. Dublin. In impeccable prose she treated love and frustration through studies of complex psychological…

Ozick, Cynthia

(Encyclopedia) Ozick, Cynthia, 1928–, American writer, b. New York City, grad. New York Univ. (B.A., 1949), Ohio State Univ. (M.A., 1950). Her fiction, written with high intelligence, elegant…