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Sheepshead Bay

(Encyclopedia)Sheepshead Bay, residential area in S Brooklyn borough of New York City, SE N.Y., on Sheepshead Bay. It was once famous for its horse and automobile races and as a resort center. The bay is an anchora...

vulcanization

(Encyclopedia)vulcanization vŭlˌkənəzāˈshən [key], treatment of rubber to give it certain qualities, e.g., strength, elasticity, and resistance to solvents, and to render it impervious to moderate heat and c...

Euclid, city, United States

(Encyclopedia)Euclid, city (2020 pop. 49,692), Cuyahoga co., NE Ohio, a suburb adjoining Cleveland, on Lake Erie; settled 1798, inc. 1848. Named for the famous Greek ...

Honda, Soichiro

(Encyclopedia)Honda, Soichiro, 1906–91, Japanese automobile executive. A mechanic and race car driver, he was a self-taught engineer. Honda founded a motorcycle company in the 1940s and began producing cars in th...

Stewart, Jackie

(Encyclopedia)Stewart, Jackie (John Young Stewart), 1939–, Scottish automobile race driver. He began racing in 1961 and by 1973 had won 27 world championship Grand Prix victories. A dominant force in the sport, h...

Atsugi

(Encyclopedia)Atsugi ätˌso͞oˈgē [key], city, Kanagawa prefecture, E central Honshu, Japan, on the Sagami River. It is an important communication, commercial, and agricultural cente...

Katrineholm

(Encyclopedia)Katrineholm käˌtrēnəhôlmˈ [key], city (1990 pop. 21,660), Södermanland co., S Sweden; chartered 1917. It is a commercial, industrial, and transportation center. The city has one of Europe's lar...

Michigan

(Encyclopedia)CE5 Michigan mĭshˈĭgən [key], upper midwestern state of the United States. It consists of two peninsulas thrusting into the Great Lakes and has borders with Ohio and Indiana (S), Wisconsin (W),...

production

(Encyclopedia)production, in economics, all those activities that have to do with the creation of commodities, by imparting to raw materials utility, added value, or the ability to satisfy human wants. The farmer w...

Drancy

(Encyclopedia)Drancy dräNsēˈ [key], city, Seine–Saint Denis dept., N central France. An industrial sub...