The World Almanac and Book of FactsPress Publishing Company (The New York World), 1931 The World Almanac and Book of Facts is a US published reference work and conveys information about such subjects as world changes, tragedies, sports feats, etc. It has been published yearly from 1868 to 1875, and again every year since 1886. The first edition of The World Almanac was published by The New York World newspaper in 1868 (the name of the publication comes from the newspaper itself, which was known as The World). Published just three years after the end of the US Civil War and the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, its 120 pages of information touched on such events as the process of Reconstruction and the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson. Publication was suspended in 1876, but in 1886 newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer, who had purchased The New York World and quickly transformed it into one of the most influential newspapers in the country, revived The World Almanac with the intention of making it a compendium of universal knowledge. The World Almanac has been published annually since. |
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... Land Banks from their origin up loaned in the different States by Federal Land Banks to June 30 , 1930. Figures are official . Federal State . Federal Joint Stk . Land Banks . Land Bks . State . Federal Joint Stk . Land Banks . Land Bks ...
... Land Banks from their origin up loaned in the different States by Federal Land Banks to June 30 , 1930. Figures are official . Federal State . Federal Joint Stk . Land Banks . Land Bks . State . Federal Joint Stk . Land Banks . Land Bks ...
Page 449
... land - telegraph wires numbered 215,595,494 , not including ocean - cable messages nor land messages sent over leased land wires by a wireless company . Income from the land - wire messages totaled $ 159,682,419 . Employees numbered ...
... land - telegraph wires numbered 215,595,494 , not including ocean - cable messages nor land messages sent over leased land wires by a wireless company . Income from the land - wire messages totaled $ 159,682,419 . Employees numbered ...
Page 777
... Land .. United States Austria A. H. Markham , Nares Expedition . 1875 83 ° 20 ′ Northeast Grinnell Land . Great Britain * J . B. Lockwood and Gen. D. L. Brainard , Gen. A. W. Greely Expedition . 1882 83 ° 24 ' Greenland Coast . United ...
... Land .. United States Austria A. H. Markham , Nares Expedition . 1875 83 ° 20 ′ Northeast Grinnell Land . Great Britain * J . B. Lockwood and Gen. D. L. Brainard , Gen. A. W. Greely Expedition . 1882 83 ° 24 ' Greenland Coast . United ...
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