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— accompanying supplies

— air supply

— air-delivered supply

— airlanded supply

— airlift supplies

— ammunition supply

— amphibious supply

— armament supplies

— assault supply

— authorized supplies

— automatic supply

— balanced supply

— basic supplies

— battle supply

— be in long supply

— be in low supply

— be in short supply

— block supplies

— build-up supply

— built-in supply

— bulk supply

— combat air supply

— combat supply

— command-controlled supplies

— common supplies

— consumable supplies

— CW supplies

— daily supply

— deliver supplies

— direct supply

— diverted supplies

— draw supplies

— dump supplies

— emergency supply

— engineer supply

— essential civilian supplies

— essential supplies

— expendable supplies

— fast-moving supplies

— field supply

— field water supply

— fire-fighting supplies

— first-aid supplies

— follow-up supply

— food supply

— fuel supply

— general supplies

— global supply

— ground supply

— heavy drop supplies

— helicopter supply

— high-level supply

— housekeeping supplies

— indigenous supplies

— individual supplies

— intransit supplies

— issue supplies

— maintain supplies at an established level

— maintain supplies

— maintenance supplies

— map supply

— material supplies

— medical supply

— military water supply

— mobile supplies

— motor transport supplies

— nondeteriorating supplies

— nonexpendable supplies

— nonmilitary supplies

— nonstandard supplies

— not operationally ready supplies

— nuclear survival supplies

— on-board ammunition supplies

— on-call supply

— one-day's supply

— operational supplies

— ordnance general supplies

— ordnance supply

— organic supplies

— organizational supply

— outrun supplies

— overseas supply

— over-the-beach supply

— pick up supplies

— Post-Exchange gratuitous supplies

— prepack supplies

— prepositioned supplies

— push supplies forward

— regulated supplies

— relay supply

— render supplies unusable

— replenishment supplies

— request supply

— requisition supplies

— reserve supplies

— restricted supplies

— routine supply

— scheduled supply

— semiautomatic supply

— shore-to-shore supply

— short supplies

— signal supply

— stack supplies

— stock supplies

— store supplies

— subsistence supply

— supply by aircraft

— supply by requisitions

— tactical supply

— tally supplies

— technical supply

— troop supply

— unit supplies

— vulnerable supplies

— water supply

   Historic, Catholic charitable institution, formally, Holy Houses of Mercy, which ministered welfare, medical, and other types of assistance to the poor and to prisoners beginning in the Middle Ages in Portugal. Although its origins lay in Christian charitable brotherhoods in medieval Portugal, the Hospitals of Mercy (Misericórdia) began in the late 15th century under royal patronage of Queen Leonor (1458-1525), wife of King João II, who founded the first Misericórdia in Lisbon. From the capital, this institution spread into other towns and regions of Portugal. She also founded the Misericórdia at Caldas da Rainha, a town north of Lisbon, where reputedly it became the world's first thermal (waters) treatment hospital, with more than 100 beds for patients. The Holy Houses of Mercy were responsible also for assisting orphans, invalids, and foundlings, as well as for feeding prisoners in jails and burying the executed. The administration of clerical brotherhood staff of these institutions increasingly was composed of persons of high social and professional standing in their communities.

   After 1500, the Misericórdias spread beyond continental Portugal to the Atlantic islands of Portugal, as well as to the overseas empire in Brazil, Cape Verdes, Angola, Mozambique, Portuguese India, Macau, and Japan. In Brazil alone, for example, there were more than 300 such places. Their activities went beyond hospital and other charity work and extended into education, learning, the founding of convents and presses, and patronage of the arts. More secular than religious today, the Houses of Mercy still function in Portugal by means of dispensing private welfare and mutual aid.

SUBJECT AREA: Architecture and building, Automotive engineering, Electricity, Electronics and information technology, Metallurgy, Photography, film and optics, Public utilities, Recording, Telecommunications

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He was the son of Samuel Edison, who was in the timber business. His schooling was delayed due to scarlet fever until 1855, when he was 8½ years old, but he was an avid reader. By the age of 14 he had a job as a newsboy on the railway from Port Huron to Detroit, a distance of sixty-three miles (101 km). He worked a fourteen-hour day with a stopover of five hours, which he spent in the Detroit Free Library. He also sold sweets on the train and, later, fruit and vegetables, and was soon making a profit of $20 a week. He then started two stores in Port Huron and used a spare freight car as a laboratory. He added a hand-printing press to produce 400 copies weekly of The Grand Trunk Herald, most of which he compiled and edited himself. He set himself to learn telegraphy from the station agent at Mount Clements, whose son he had saved from being run over by a freight car.

At the age of 16 he became a telegraphist at Port Huron. In 1863 he became railway telegraphist at the busy Stratford Junction of the Grand Trunk Railroad, arranging a clock with a notched wheel to give the hourly signal which was to prove that he was awake and at his post! He left hurriedly after failing to hold a train which was nearly involved in a head-on collision. He usually worked the night shift, allowing himself time for experiments during the day. His first invention was an arrangement of two Morse registers so that a high-speed input could be decoded at a slower speed. Moving from place to place he held many positions as a telegraphist. In Boston he invented an automatic vote recorder for Congress and patented it, but the idea was rejected. This was the first of a total of 1180 patents that he was to take out during his lifetime. After six years he resigned from the Western Union Company to devote all his time to invention, his next idea being an improved ticker-tape machine for stockbrokers. He developed a duplex telegraphy system, but this was turned down by the Western Union Company. He then moved to New York.

Edison found accommodation in the battery room of Law's Gold Reporting Company, sleeping in the cellar, and there his repair of a broken transmitter marked him as someone of special talents. His superior soon resigned, and he was promoted with a salary of $300 a month. Western Union paid him $40,000 for the sole rights on future improvements on the duplex telegraph, and he moved to Ward Street, Newark, New Jersey, where he employed a gathering of specialist engineers. Within a year, he married one of his employees, Mary Stilwell, when she was only 16: a daughter, Marion, was born in 1872, and two sons, Thomas and William, in 1876 and 1879, respectively.

He continued to work on the automatic telegraph, a device to send out messages faster than they could be tapped out by hand: that is, over fifty words per minute or so. An earlier machine by Alexander Bain worked at up to 400 words per minute, but was not good over long distances. Edison agreed to work on improving this feature of Bain's machine for the Automatic Telegraph Company (ATC) for $40,000. He improved it to a working speed of 500 words per minute and ran a test between Washington and New York. Hoping to sell their equipment to the Post Office in Britain, ATC sent Edison to England in 1873 to negotiate. A 500-word message was to be sent from Liverpool to London every half-hour for six hours, followed by tests on 2,200 miles (3,540 km) of cable at Greenwich. Only confused results were obtained due to induction in the cable, which lay coiled in a water tank. Edison returned to New York, where he worked on his quadruplex telegraph system, tests of which proved a success between New York and Albany in December 1874. Unfortunately, simultaneous negotiation with Western Union and ATC resulted in a lawsuit.

Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent for a telephone in March 1876 while Edison was still working on the same idea. His improvements allowed the device to operate over a distance of hundreds of miles instead of only a few miles. Tests were carried out over the 106 miles (170 km) between New York and Philadelphia. Edison applied for a patent on the carbon-button transmitter in April 1877, Western Union agreeing to pay him $6,000 a year for the seventeen-year duration of the patent. In these years he was also working on the development of the electric lamp and on a duplicating machine which would make up to 3,000 copies from a stencil. In 1876–7 he moved from Newark to Menlo Park, twenty-four miles (39 km) from New York on the Pennsylvania Railway, near Elizabeth. He had bought a house there around which he built the premises that would become his "inventions factory". It was there that he began the use of his 200- page pocket notebooks, each of which lasted him about two weeks, so prolific were his ideas. When he died he left 3,400 of them filled with notes and sketches.

Late in 1877 he applied for a patent for a phonograph which was granted on 19 February 1878, and by the end of the year he had formed a company to manufacture this totally new product. At the time, Edison saw the device primarily as a business aid rather than for entertainment, rather as a dictating machine. In August 1878 he was granted a British patent. In July 1878 he tried to measure the heat from the solar corona at a solar eclipse viewed from Rawlins, Wyoming, but his "tasimeter" was too sensitive.

Probably his greatest achievement was "The Subdivision of the Electric Light" or the "glow bulb". He tried many materials for the filament before settling on carbon. He gave a demonstration of electric light by lighting up Menlo Park and inviting the public. Edison was, of course, faced with the problem of inventing and producing all the ancillaries which go to make up the electrical system of generation and distribution-meters, fuses, insulation, switches, cabling—even generators had to be designed and built; everything was new. He started a number of manufacturing companies to produce the various components needed.

In 1881 he built the world's largest generator, which weighed 27 tons, to light 1,200 lamps at the Paris Exhibition. It was later moved to England to be used in the world's first central power station with steam engine drive at Holborn Viaduct, London. In September 1882 he started up his Pearl Street Generating Station in New York, which led to a worldwide increase in the application of electric power, particularly for lighting. At the same time as these developments, he built a 1,300yd (1,190m) electric railway at Menlo Park.

On 9 August 1884 his wife died of typhoid. Using his telegraphic skills, he proposed to 19-year-old Mina Miller in Morse code while in the company of others on a train. He married her in February 1885 before buying a new house and estate at West Orange, New Jersey, building a new laboratory not far away in the Orange Valley.

Edison used direct current which was limited to around 250 volts. Alternating current was largely developed by George Westinghouse and Nicola Tesla, using transformers to step up the current to a higher voltage for long-distance transmission. The use of AC gradually overtook the Edison DC system.

In autumn 1888 he patented a form of cinephotography, the kinetoscope, obtaining film-stock from George Eastman. In 1893 he set up the first film studio, which was pivoted so as to catch the sun, with a hinged roof which could be raised. In 1894 kinetoscope parlours with "peep shows" were starting up in cities all over America. Competition came from the Latham Brothers with a screen-projection machine, which Edison answered with his "Vitascope", shown in New York in 1896. This showed pictures with accompanying sound, but there was some difficulty with synchronization. Edison also experimented with captions at this early date.

In 1880 he filed a patent for a magnetic ore separator, the first of nearly sixty. He bought up deposits of low-grade iron ore which had been developed in the north of New Jersey. The process was a commercial success until the discovery of iron-rich ore in Minnesota rendered it uneconomic and uncompetitive. In 1898 cement rock was discovered in New Village, west of West Orange. Edison bought the land and started cement manufacture, using kilns twice the normal length and using half as much fuel to heat them as the normal type of kiln. In 1893 he met Henry Ford, who was building his second car, at an Edison convention. This started him on the development of a battery for an electric car on which he made over 9,000 experiments. In 1903 he sold his patent for wireless telegraphy "for a song" to Guglielmo Marconi.

In 1910 Edison designed a prefabricated concrete house. In December 1914 fire destroyed three-quarters of the West Orange plant, but it was at once rebuilt, and with the threat of war Edison started to set up his own plants for making all the chemicals that he had previously been buying from Europe, such as carbolic acid, phenol, benzol, aniline dyes, etc. He was appointed President of the Navy Consulting Board, for whom, he said, he made some forty-five inventions, "but they were pigeonholed, every one of them". Thus did Edison find that the Navy did not take kindly to civilian interference.

In 1927 he started the Edison Botanic Research Company, founded with similar investment from Ford and Firestone with the object of finding a substitute for overseas-produced rubber. In the first year he tested no fewer than 3,327 possible plants, in the second year, over 1,400, eventually developing a variety of Golden Rod which grew to 14 ft (4.3 m) in height. However, all this effort and money was wasted, due to the discovery of synthetic rubber.

In October 1929 he was present at Henry Ford's opening of his Dearborn Museum to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the incandescent lamp, including a replica of the Menlo Park laboratory. He was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal and was elected to the American Academy of Sciences. He died in 1931 at his home, Glenmont; throughout the USA, lights were dimmed temporarily on the day of his funeral.

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active market оживленный рынок advancing market растущий рынок after hours market сделки, заключенные после официального закрытия биржи after market внебиржевой рынок ценных бумаг approach a market выход на рынок arbitrage market арбитражный рынок banking market банковский рынок barely steady market устойчивый рынок с тенденцией к понижению to be on the long side of the market придерживать товар в ожидании повышения цен market сбыт; to come into the market поступить в продажу; to put on the market пустить в продажу; to be on the market продаваться bearish market рынок, на котором наблюдается тенденция к снижению курсов bearish market бирж. рынок с понижением фондовой конъюнктуры black market черный рынок black market черный рынок bond market рынок облигаций с фиксированной ставкой to bring one's eggs (или hogs) to a bad (или the wrong) market просчитаться; потерпеть неудачу market торговля; brisk market бойкая торговля; hours of market часы торговли bulk market рынок транспортных услуг для массовых грузов bull market бирж. рынок спекулянтов, играющих на повышение bull the market exc. играть на повышение bullish market бирж. рынок спекулянтов, играющих на повышение buyer's market конъюнктура рынка, выгодная для покупателя calm the market устанавливать спокойствие на рынке calm the market устранять колебания рыночной конъюнктуры capital market рынок долгосрочного ссудного капитала capital market рынок капиталов captive market рынок, нейтрализующий конкуренцию captive market рынок, защищенный от конкуренции cash market бирж. наличный рынок cash market бирж. рынок реальных финансовых инструментов certificate-of-deposit market рынок депозитных сертификатов market сбыт; to come into the market поступить в продажу; to put on the market пустить в продажу; to be on the market продаваться commodity market рынок товаров commodity market товарная биржа commodity market товарный рынок market: confident market устойчивый рынок consolidate a market укреплять рынок consumer market потребительский рынок control the market контролировать рынок controlled market регулируемый рынок credit market рынок кредита cross-border market международный рынок cultivate a market развивать рынок currency market валютный рынок dampened market вялый рынок dampened market неактивный рынок debenture market рынок долговых обязательств declining market сужающийся рынок depressed market вялый рынок depressed market неактивный рынок develop a market осваивать рынок develop a market развивать рынок development aid market рынок помощи в целях развития difficult market трудный рынок domestic capital market внутренний рынок долгосрочного ссудного капитала domestic market внутренний рынок domestic market отечественный рынок dual exchange market валютный рынок с двойным режимом dull market вялый рынок dull market неактивный рынок either way market альтернативный рынок energy market рынок энергоресурсов equity market рынок акций equity market рынок ценных бумаг eurobond market рынок еврооблигаций eurocurrency market евровалютный рынок eurodollar bond market рынок евродолларовых облигаций exchange market валютный рынок excited market оживленный рынок expectant market предполагаемый рынок export market внешний рынок factor market рынок факторов производства falling market понижательная рыночная конъюнктура financial market финансовый рынок market спрос; to find a (ready) market пользоваться спросом; there's no market for these goods на эти товары нет спроса market: find a market находить рынок firm market устойчивый рынок flat market бирж. вялый рынок flat market бирж. неоживленный рынок flood the market наводнять рынок fluctuating market нестабильный рынок foreign capital market рынок иностранного капитала foreign exchange market рынок иностранной валюты foreign market внешний рынок forward bond market бирж. рынок форвардных облигаций forward exchange market форвардный валютный рынок forward market форвардный рынок fourth market прямая торговля крупными партиями ценных бумаг между институциональными инвесторами free market свободный рынок, торговля на основе неограниченной конкуренции free market свободный рынок freight market рынок грузовых перевозок futures market бирж. фьючерсный рынок geographical market географический рынок glut the market затоваривать рынок goods market товарный рынок grey market внебиржевой рынок ценных бумаг grey market нерегулируемый денежный рынок grey market рынок новых облигаций heterogeneous market неоднородный рынок homogeneous market однородный рынок market торговля; brisk market бойкая торговля; hours of market часы торговли illegal market нелегальный рынок illegal market черный рынок illicit market нелегальный рынок illicit market черный рынок imperfect market несовершенный рынок import market рынок импорта inactive market вялый рынок inactive market неактивный рынок insurance market рынок страхования interbank market межбанковский рынок internal market внутренний рынок kerb market бирж. внебиржевой рынок kerb market бирж. торговля ценными бумагами вне фондовой биржи kerbstone market бирж. внебиржевой рынок kerbstone market бирж. торговля ценными бумагами вне фондовой биржи labour market рынок рабочей силы labour market рынок труда leading-edge market рынок передовой технологии loan market рынок ссуд loan market рынок ссудного капитала lose a market терять рынок make a market создавать рынок market (the M.) = common market биржа market городской рынок market находить рынок сбыта market объем потенциальных перевозок market покупать market привезти на рынок; купить или продать на рынке market продавать; сбывать; находить рынок сбыта market продавать на рынке market амер. продовольственный магазин market пускать в оборот market реализовывать на рынке market рынок, базар market рынок market рынок транспортных услуг market рыночная цена market рыночные цены; the market rose цены поднялись; to play the market спекулировать на бирже market рыночные цены market attr. рыночный; market research обобщение данных о конъюнктуре рынка market сбывать на рынке market сбыт; to come into the market поступить в продажу; to put on the market пустить в продажу; to be on the market продаваться market сбыт market состояние конъюнктуры market специализированный продовольственный магазин market спрос; to find a (ready) market пользоваться спросом; there's no market for these goods на эти товары нет спроса market спрос market торговать market торговля; brisk market бойкая торговля; hours of market часы торговли market торговля Market: Market: Common market Европейское экономическое сообщество market: market: confident market устойчивый рынок market attr. рыночный; market research обобщение данных о конъюнктуре рынка research: market market анализ рыночного потенциала нового продукта market market анализ состояния рынка market market изучение возможностей рынка market market изучение рыночной конъюнктуры market market исследование рынка market market маркетинговое исследование market рыночные цены; the market rose цены поднялись; to play the market спекулировать на бирже mass market рынок товаров массового производства money market денежный рынок, валютный рынок money market денежный рынок money market рынок краткосрочного капитала mortgage deed market рынок залоговых сертификатов move the market продвигать товар на рынок near market ближний рынок negotiated deposit market договорный депозитный рынок new issue market рынок новых эмиссий ocean shipping market рынок морских перевозок off-the-board market внебиржевой рынок offshore market зарубежный рынок oil market рынок нефти on free market на свободном рынке one-way market односторонний рынок open market открытый рынок open: market market вольный рынок; the post is still open место еще не занято options market бирж. рынок опционов overseas market внешний рынок perfect market идеальный рынок physical market наличный рынок market рыночные цены; the market rose цены поднялись; to play the market спекулировать на бирже primary market первичный рынок primary market рынок новых ценных бумаг primary market рынок сырьевых товаров primary market рынок товара, лежащего в основе срочного контракта primary market рынок финансового инструмента, лежащего в основе срочного контракта profitable market рентабельный рынок property market рынок недвижимости market сбыт; to come into the market поступить в продажу; to put on the market пустить в продажу; to be on the market продаваться put: market yourself in his place поставь себя на его место; to put on the market выпускать в продажу raw material market рынок сырья ready market готовый рынок real estate market рынок недвижимости receding market рынок со снижающимися курсами reseller market рынок перепродаваемых товаров rig the market искусственно вздувать курсы ценных бумаг rig: market действовать нечестно; мошенничать; to rig the market искусственно повышать или понижать цены rigging the market искусственное вздувание курсов ценных бумаг rising market растущий рынок sagging market рынок, характеризующийся понижением цен sagging market рынок, характеризующийся падением курсов second market вторичный рынок second market второстепенный рынок second-hand market второстепенный рынок second-hand market рынок подержанных товаров secondary labour market вторичный рынок труда secondary market вторичный рынок secondary mortgage market вторичный ипотечный рынок securities market рынок ценных бумаг seller's market эк. рынок, на котором спрос превышает предложение seller's market рынок продавцов seller's market рыночная конъюнктура, выгодная для продавцов sensitive market неустойчивый рынок sensitive market рынок, способный к быстрой реакции sensitive market рынок, отражающий конъюнктурные колебания sensitive: market чувствительный; восприимчивый; a sensitive ear (болезненно) тонкий слух; sensitive market эк. неустойчивый рынок share market фондовая биржа share market фондовый рынок sheltered market закрытая организация (например, фондовая биржа) single European market единый европейский рынок slack market неактивный рынок с большим разрывом между ценами продавца и покупателя slackening market неактивный рынок с большим разрывом между ценами продавца и покупателя slipping market рынок с тенденцией понижения курсов ценных бумаг spot market наличный рынок spot market рынок наличного товара spot market рынок реального товара steady market стабильный рынок steady market устойчивый рынок steady the market стабилизировать рынок stock market уровень цен на бирже stock market фондовая биржа stock market фондовый рынок street market внебиржевой рынок street market неофициальная биржа street market сделки, заключенные после официального закрытия биржи swamp the market наводнять рынок target market целевой рынок test market пробный рынок test the market проверять рынок market спрос; to find a (ready) market пользоваться спросом; there's no market for these goods на эти товары нет спроса thin market вялый рынок thin market бирж. неактивный рынок thin market рынок с незначительным числом участников и низким уровнем активности third market внебиржевой рынок ценных бумаг third market рынок ценных бумаг, не удовлетворяющих требованиям фондовой биржи tight labour market рынок труда с высоким спросом на рабочую силу tight market активный рынок с незначительным разрывом между ценами продавца и покупателя tight market рынок с недостаточным предложением trading market бирж. вторичный рынок training market рынок профобразования two-way market рынок, на котором постоянно котируются цены покупателя и продавца two-way market рынок ценных бумаг, на котором заключается большое количество сделок без резких колебаний цен uncertain market рынок в неопределенном состоянии unchanged market неизменившийся рынок underground market черный рынок unofficial market неофициальная биржа unregulated labour market стихийный рынок рабочей силы unsettled market неустойчивый рынок untapped market неосвоенный рынок via interbank market через межбанковский рынок weak market рынок, характеризующийся преобладанием продавцов и понижением цен weaken the market снижать активность на рынке wholesale market внутренний рынок (рынок, на котором продавцами и покупателями выступают дилеры за свой счет) world market мировой рынок world: market line-up расстановка сил в мире; world market мировой рынок; world trade международная торговля