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Nationalizing the salt and iron trades eliminated this threat and produced large profits for the state. [7] This policy was successful in financing Emperor Wu's campaigns of challenging the nomadic Xiongnu Confederation while colonizing the Hexi Corridor and what is now Xinjiang of Central Asia, Northern Vietnam, Yunnan, and North Korea. [8]
Mary Florence Potts (née Webber; November 1, 1850 – June 24, 1922) was an American businesswoman and inventor.She invented clothes irons with detachable wooden handles, and they were exhibited at the 1876 Philadelphia Exposition World's Fair and the 1893 Chicago World's Fair.
By 1824, when Isaac died, the mill was known as the Brandywine Iron Works and Nail Factory, after Brandywine Creek which provided the water power for the mill. [1] Brandywine Mansion in 2013. She married Dr. Charles Lukens in 1813. [3] He soon entered the iron business, and together the Lukens leased the mill from her father. [3]
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Pauline Morton Sabin (April 23, 1887 – December 27, 1955) was an American prohibition repeal leader and Republican party official. Born in Chicago, she was a New Yorker who founded the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform (WONPR).
Emperor Zhang of Han (r. 75–88 AD) briefly reintroduced the central government monopolies on salt and iron from 85 to 88 AD, but abolished them in the last year of his reign. After Emperor Zhang, the Han never returned the salt and iron industries to government ownership. [75] An Eastern-Han glazed ceramic model of a furnace
The vocal advocates for reforms to state and local tax (SALT) deductions have often been able to garner plenty of attention for their cause but have proven markedly less able to get their demands ...
Bureau of Salt and Iron Monopoly (鹽鐵司) - responsible for industries related to public work, notably the production and distribution or merchandise of salt, but also other areas such as the production of weaponry Military (bing'an) Armaments (zhou'an) Market tax (shangshui'an) Capital supply (duyan'an) Tea (cha'an) Iron (tie'an)