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UNINA9910701904503321 |
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Titolo |
Analysis of data from NASA B-57B gust gradient program [[electronic resource] ] : final report / / by Walter Frost ... [and others] |
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Tullahoma, Tenn. : , : Atmospheric Science Division, University of Tennessee Space Institute |
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[Huntsville, Ala.] : , : George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, , [1985] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (x, 68 pages, 420 unnumbered pages) : illustrations |
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[NASA contractor report] ; ; 178736 |
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Aircraft control |
Autocorrelation |
Computer systems programs |
Gusts |
Landing |
Statistical analysis |
Takeoff |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Title from title screen (viewed on Aug. 6, 2012). |
"September 1985." |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (page 68). |
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UNINA9910974411803321 |
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Autore |
Schwieder Dorothy <1933-> |
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Buxton : a Black utopia in the heartland / / Dorothy Schwieder, Joseph Hraba and Elmer Schwieder |
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Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2003 |
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[An expanded ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (277 p.) |
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HrabaJoseph |
SchwiederElmer <1925-> |
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305.9/622 |
977.00496073 |
305.9622 |
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Coal miners - Iowa - Buxton |
Buxton (Iowa) Race relations |
Buxton (Iowa) Social conditions |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Original subtitle: Work and racial equality in a coal mining community. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-246) and index. |
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CONTENTS; A Buxton Retrospective: Introduction to the 2003 Edition; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Muchakinock: Buxton's Historical Antecedent; 2. The Creation of a Community; 3. Workers in a Company Town; 4. The Consolidation Coal Company; 5. Family Life; 6. Ethnicity; 7. Buxton and Haydock: The Final Years; 8. A Perspective; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index |
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From 1900 until the early 1920's, an unusual community existed in America's heartland-Buxton, Iowa. Originally established by the Consolidation Coal Company, Buxton was the largest unincorporated coal mining community in Iowa. What made Buxton unique, however, is the fact that the majority of its 5,000 residents were African Americans-a highly unusual racial composition for a state which was over 90 percent white. At a time when both southern and northern blacks were disadvantaged and oppressed, blacks in Buxton enjoyed true racial integration-steady employment, above-average wages, decent |
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