Proceedings of the National Board of Fire Underwriters and of the Executive Committee [and Other Documents].
Author: National Board of Fire Underwriters
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Published: 1917
Total Pages: 734
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Author: National Board of Fire Underwriters
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Published: 1917
Total Pages: 734
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Henry Olcott
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2023-02-20
Total Pages: 926
ISBN-13: 3382113570
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (U.S.)
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Published: 1916
Total Pages: 1126
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Congress
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Total Pages: 1518
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Temporary National Economic Committee
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Published: 1939
Total Pages: 768
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Published: 1910
Total Pages: 1206
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 904
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Published: 1968
Total Pages: 2392
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James B. McSwain
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 2018-07-06
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 0807169145
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThroughout the twentieth century, cities such as Houston, Galveston, New Orleans, and Mobile grappled with the safety hazards created by oil and gas industries as well as the role municipal governments should play in protecting the public from these threats. James B. McSwain’s Petroleum and Public Safety reveals how officials in these cities created standards based on technical, scientific, and engineering knowledge to devise politically workable ordinances related to the storage and handling of fuel. Each of the cities studied in this volume struggled through protracted debates regarding the regulation of crude petroleum and fuel oil, sparked by the famous Spindletop strike of 1901 and the regional oil boom in the decades that followed. Municipal governments sought to ensure the safety of their citizens while still reaping lucrative economic benefits from local petroleum industry activities. Drawing on historical antecedents such as fire-protection engineering, the cities of the Gulf South came to adopt voluntary, consensual fire codes issued by insurance associations and standards organizations such as the National Board of Fire Underwriters, the National Fire Protection Association, and the Southern Standard Building Code Conference. The culmination of such efforts was the creation of the International Fire Code, an overarching fire-protection guide that is widely used in the United States, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central America. In devising ordinances, Gulf South officials pursued the politics of risk management, as they hammered out strategies to eliminate or mitigate the dangers associated with petroleum industries and to reduce the possible consequences of catastrophic oil explosions and fires. Using an array of original sources, including newspapers, municipal records, fire-insurance documents, and risk-management literature, McSwain demonstrates that Gulf South cities played a vital role in twentieth-century modernization.