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See also:BAROSS, GABOR (1848-1892) , Hungarian statesman, was See also:born at Trencsen on the 6th of See also:July 1848, and educated at See also:Esztergom. He was for a See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time one of the professors there under See also:Cardinal Kolos Vaszary. After acquiring considerable See also:local reputation as See also:chief See also:notary of his See also:county, he entered See also:parliament in 1875. He at once attached himself to Kalman See also:Tisza and remained faithful to his chief even after the Bosnian occupation had alienated so many of the supporters of the See also:prime See also:minister. It was he who See also:drew up the reply to the malcontents on this occasion, for the first time demonstrating his many-sided ability and his See also:genius for sustained hard See also:work. But it was in the See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field of See also:economics that he principally achieved his fame. In 1883 he was appointed secretary to the See also:ministry of ways and communications. Baross, who had prepared himself for quite another career, and had only become acquainted with the civilized See also:West at the time of the See also:Composition of 1867, mastered, in an incredibly See also:short time, the details of this difficult See also:department. His zeal, conscientiousness and See also:energy were so universally recognized, that on the retirement of Gabor See also:Kemeny, in 1886, he was appointed minister of ways and communications. He devoted himself especially to the development of the See also:national See also:railways, and the gigantic network of the Austro-Hungarian railway See also:system and its unification is mainly his work. But his most See also:original creation in this respect was the See also:zone system, which immensely facilitated and cheapened the circulation of all wares and produce, and brought the remotest districts into See also:direct communication with the central point at See also:Budapest. The amalgamation of the ministry of See also:commerce with the ministry of ways in 1889 further enabled Baross to realize his See also:great See also:idea of making the See also:trade of See also:Hungary See also:independent of See also:foreign influences, of increasing the commercial productiveness of the See also:kingdom and of gaining every possible See also:advantage for her export trade by a revision of tolls.
This patriotic policy provoked loud protests both from See also:Austria and See also:Germany at the See also:conference of See also:Vienna in 189o, and Baross was obliged somewhat to modify his system. This was by no means the only instance in which his commercial policy was attacked and even hampered by foreign courts. But wherever he was allowed a See also:free See also:hand he introduced See also:epoch-making reforms in all the branches of his department, including posts, telegraphs, &c. A See also:man of such strength of See also:character was not to be turned from his course by any amount of opposition, and he rather enjoyed to be alluded to as " the See also:iron-handed minister." The crowning point of his railway policy was the regulation of the See also:Danube at the hitherto impassable Iron-See also:Gates Rapids by the construction of canals, which opened up the eastern trade to Hungary and was an event of See also:international importance. It was while inspecting his work there in See also:March 1892 that he caught a chill, from which he died on the 8th of May. The See also:day of his See also:burial was a day of national See also:mourning, and rightly so, for Baross had dedicated his whole time and genius to the promotion of his See also:country's prosperity.
See Laszlo Petrovics, See also:Biography of See also:Gabriel Baross (Hung. Eperies, 1892). (R. N.
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