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| | Charles Henry Dow -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
 | | Charles was brought up by his mother and grandfather, Robert the Frisian, on whose death he did great services to his uncle,... |
 | | Charles Goren was born on March 4, 1901, in Philadelphia, Pa. Goren gave up a law career in the 1930s to concentrate on playing and writing about contract bridge, becoming one of the foremost experts on the game in the United States. |
 | | Dow, Herbert H. (18661930), pioneer in U.S. chemical industry, born in Belleville, Ont., Canada; developed and patented electrolytic methods for extracting bromine from brine; organized the Dow Process Company in 1895; founded Dow Chemical Company in 1897; his products from brine found application in insecticides and pharmaceuticals; introduced automatic processing to produce magnesium... |
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