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Whitman

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Whitman town (1990 pop. 13,240), Plymouth co., SE Mass., S of Boston; settled c.1670, set off from Abington and inc. 1875. It is an industrial town that manufactures plastics and foundry products. The Toll House (1709) is restored. ... Read more
Whitman
The Oxford American College Dictionary

Whit·man 1 / ˈ(h)witmən / , Christine Todd (1946– ) US politician. She served as the governor of New Jersey 1995–2001 before being appointed as administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency by President George W. Bush in 2001. ...

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Marcus Whitman
Encyclopedia Britannica

(born Sept. 4, 1802, Rushville, N.Y., U.S.—died Nov. 29, 1847, Waiilatpu, Oregon Territory) U.S. missionary and pioneer. A physician and Congregational missionary, he was sent to the Oregon region after offering his services to the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. In 1836 ...

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Whitman chairman explains Pet spinoff: to `unlock its value'
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 10/4/1990; ; 506 words ; Whitman Corp. decided to spin off its Pet Inc. food subsidiary...be valued on its own as a separate company and so would Whitman." Last year, Pet, a St. Louis-based niche marketer of foods, contributed about $2 billion, or just over half of Whitman's revenues. On Friday, Whitman's board of directors ... Read more
Whitman is said to be ready to quit at EPA
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 12/15/2002; ; 547 words ; Whitman is said to be ready to quit at EPA Her office denies it; some say Bush loyalist may become an ambassador...Capitol Hill staff and environmental groups expect Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Christine Whitman to leave her job soon. Whitman, a former New Jersey governor and a ... Read more
Whitman will spin off 2 units, focus on bottler
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 6/24/1997; ; 629 words ; Whitman Corp. said Monday it plans to spin off two of its major...conglomerate's lagging stock price. Rolling Meadows-based Whitman said its shareholders will get stakes in Hussmann Corp...International franchiser of muffler shops. The surviving Whitman, which will retain the name, will consist primarily ... Read more
Caretaker? Cozad whips Whitman into '90s shape
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 3/25/1990; ; 700+ words ; Whitman Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer James W. Cozad...taking the company back to the future. Last November, when Whitman's board of directors selected Cozad, 62, to replace the...9 billion mostly food and beverage company. Last week, Whitman's board approved a Cozad plan to study the sale of ... Read more
WILL RESTORATION OUTPLAY BASEBALL? FATE OF SPORTS PLAY RAISED AS WHITMAN REVIVES OLMSTED PLAN
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 5/13/2001; ; 700+ words ; WHITMAN - As a landscape designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, Whitman Park has a certain cachet. But in a small town where space...is hard to come by, this 14-acre green in the middle of Whitman has other significance. It has two baseball fields. Today... Read more
WATER SHORTAGE SLOWS EXPANSION IN WHITMAN
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 7/16/1988; ; 700+ words ; WHITMAN - When Ruth Wakefield, co-owner of the Toll House Restaurant, compromised her cookie batter more than 50 years...chocolate rather than nuts, she had no idea that her new-found Toll House cookie recipe would make the town of Whitman famous. But Whitman, located about 17 miles south of Boston, has ... Read more
A greener Whitman.(Walt Whitman and the Earth)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide; 11/1/2005; ; 611 words ; Walt Whitman and the Earth by M. Jimmie Killingsworth University...to happen at some point. Someone had to embrace Whitman as an environmentalist, and thus we have Killingsworth's Walt Whitman and the Earth, demonstrating yet again that Whitman... Read more
ITS INDUSTRY GONE, WHITMAN NOW PLAYS A DIFFERENT ROLE
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 1/10/1998; ; 700+ words ; WHITMAN -- Until the middle of this century, Whitman was a shoe manufacturing town cheek-by-jowl with Brockton...Alden in Middleborough and Footjoy-Titlist in Brockton. In Whitman, only the DB Gurney Co. is left, an old tack factory that... Read more
Walt Whitman's "Body Electric".(Teaching Notes)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Radical Teacher; 3/22/2007; ; 700+ words ; WALT WHITMAN'S BODY ELECTRIC Selected Poems by Walt Whitman, Dover Thrift Editions, $2.00 During our era of religious fundamentalism, violence, and political apathy, Walt Whitman's abolitionist poem, I Sing the Body Electric, takes on... Read more
Walt Whitman, Taking Poetic License With His Image
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 4/12/2005; ; 700+ words ; O Walt Whitman! Bard of America! Poet of Democracy! Singer...body electric! Barbaric yawper! O Walt Whitman! Sage! Crank! Crackpot! Dirty old man...Rest stop on the Jersey Turnpike! O Walt Whitman! Writer and re-writer and obsessive re-re-wr... Read more

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