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The first oil well in the United States was drilled in 1859, by Edwin L. Drake, near Titusville, Pennsylvania, a town named for Jonathan Titus, who settled it in 1796 (and wanted to call it Edinburgh).
Federal racketeering charges have been brought against Edwin Edwards — Louisiana State Governor until his retirement in 1996 — and the huge trial in Baton Rouge is keeping the state on the edge of its seat.
And Edwin S. Matthews Jr. of Coudert Brothers in New York represented Don Paradis, who was released from prison after 14 years on death row in Idaho.
For more information on multifactor productivity, see "Productivity Measure: Business Sector and Major Subsectors," BLS Handbook of Methods, Bureau of Labor Statistics (April 1997), pp. 89-98; and Edwin R. Dean and Michael J. Harper, "The BLS Productivity Measurement Program," Bureau of Labor Statistics (July 5, 2000), paper presented to the NBER Conference on Research in Income and Wealth on New Directions in Productivity Analysis, March 20-21, 1998.
Two years later, Lemaître's model was confirmed by the American astronomer Edwin Hubble, who had observed that the galaxies everywhere around us were receding.