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The Statesman's Year-Book

John Paxton

St.Martin's Press

The Statesman's Year Book 1979-1980

Macmillan

This book, now in its twelfth edition, has become indispensable to every library and to every serious student of history. The twelfth edition takes the tables up to the end of 1990 and so records all the dramatic events occurring in Eastern Europe at the end of the decade. An important new feature is that an index has been provided thus enhancing this essential reference tool.

Historical tables, 58 BC-AD 1990

S. H. Steinberg

History

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Historical Tables 58BC - AD1985

Reference

Garland Publishing

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...Oberrealschulen, and Realschulen, with (1898) a total attendance of 8,605; 5 higher girls' schools with (1898) 2,047, and 52 private schools with (1899) 4,108 pupils. In addition, there are a University at Giessen with 814 matriculated students and 36 listeners, and a Technical High School (Technische Hochschule) at Darmstadt, with 1,371 students and 132 "hospitants," &c., in 1899. Besides, there are many industrial, technical, agricultural and other special institutes. Finance. The budget is granted for the term of three years. The sources of ordinary revenue and branches of expenditure were estimated for each year of the linanciul poriod 1897-1900 as folluws:--i The extraordinary revenue was estimated at 4,021,388, and the extraordinary expenditure at 3,224,900 marks per annum. The direct taxes are a land (and house-) tax, trade-tax, rent-tax and income-tax; the indirect taxes are chiefly a stamp-tax and fees, dog-tax, duties on successions, &c. The public debt amounted to 238,769,225 marks in 1898, of which 227,559,320 marks are railway debt; against this are active funds of the State amounting to 10,734,000 marks. The total annual charge of the debt (interest and sinking fund) in the budget of 1897-1900 is 7,933,782 marks in ordinary and 19,194 marks in extraordinary. Production and Industry. Of the area, 64'1 per cent, is under cultivation; 31 '2 per cent, forests: 4'7 percent, uncultivated (houses, roads, water, &c.). Arable land occupies 381,143 hectares; meadows and pastures, 100,528; vineyards, 13,155; and forests, 240,700 hectares; of the latter, 68,738 belong to the State, 89,932 to the communes, 1,713 to other bodies, and 80,317 to private persons. The number of agricultural enclosures, each under one household, was (1895) ...

The Statesman's year-book Volume 37

RareBooksClub.com

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...rich coal and iron ore fields; and the Grand-Duchy of Luxemburg rich iron ore fields. The annual quantities of the principal minerals raised in five years are shown in the following table, the returns for 1902 being provisional only:--The total value of the minerals raised in Germany and Luxemburg in 1902 was 1,236 million marks; in 1903, 1,312 million marks. The following table shows particulars of the production of the foundries in Germany and Luxemburg in 1902 and the number of foundries engaged principally or partly with each metal in 1902:--In addition to the above, about 2,664 kilograms of gold, valued at 7,431,000 marks, were produced. Nickel, bismuth, vitriol, and other chemical manufactures were produced to a total weight of 41,021 tons, and to a total value of 17,414,000 marks. The total value of the productions of the foundries of all kinds in 1902 was 672,824,000 marks. The total quantity of finished iron produced in Germany and Luxemburg in 1902 was 9,892,756 metric tons, and its value 1,230,197,000 marks. In 1902 there were in Germany and Luxemburg 1,673 works producing finished iron, including steel-works. Over 270,846 men are employed in connection with the various stages of iron (including pig iron), besides 39,202 iron-miners. In connection with coal and lignite mining alone the average number of hands engaged was 504,927 in 1902. IV. Fisheries. The German fisheries are not important. In 1895 the persons engaged in fishing numbered 32,199, of whom 12,224 were employed in sea and shore fishing, and 19,975 on iulaud waters. In 1902 (January 1) 533 boats (35,566 tons gross tonnage), with an aggregate crew of 3,733, were engaged in deep-sea fishing in the North Sea for fresh fish and herrings. The Baltic fisheries are more developed. In 1903 f...

The Statesman's Year-Book Volume 42

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Dictionary of Financial Abbreviations

Business & Money

Economics

Routledge

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