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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1500
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Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1500
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Car Safety Wars
Author: Michael R. LemovPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611477468
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
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Car Safety Wars is a gripping history of the hundred-year struggle to improve the safety of American automobiles and save lives on the highways. Described as the “equivalent of war” by the Supreme Court, the battle involved the automobile industry, unsung and long-forgotten safety heroes, at least six US Presidents, a reluctant Congress, new auto technologies, and, most of all, the mindset of the American public: would they demand and be willing to pay for safer cars? The “Car Safety Wars” were at first won by consumers and safety advocates. The major victory was the enactment in 1966 of a ground breaking federal safety law. The safety act was pushed through Congress over the bitter objections of car manufacturers by a major scandal involving General Motors, its private detectives, Ralph Nader, and a gutty cigar-chomping old politician. The act is a success story for government safety regulation. It has cut highway death and injury rates by over seventy percent in the years since its enactment, saving more than two million lives and billions of taxpayer dollars. But the car safety wars have never ended. GM has recently been charged with covering up deadly defects resulting in multiple ignition switch shut offs. Toyota has been fined for not reporting fatal unintended acceleration in many models. Honda and other companies have—for years—sold cars incorporating defective air bags. These current events, suggesting a failure of safety regulation, may serve to warn us that safety laws and agencies created with good intentions can be corrupted and strangled over time. This book suggests ways to avoid this result, but shows that safer cars and highways are a hard road to travel. We are only part of the way home.
208 Bulletin
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Category : Water quality management
Languages : en
Pages : 90
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Denison Genealogy, Ancestors and Descendants of Captain George Denison
Author: Elverton Glenn DenisonPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 928
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George Denison (1620-1694) married Bridget Thompson (d.1643) in 1622, and emigrated from England to Roxbury, Massachusetts. After her death, he returned to England to serve in Cromwell's army there, was taken prisoner, later freed, and married Ann Borodell about 1645. He and his second wife then returned to Massachusetts, and shortly they moved to New London, Connecticut, and in 1658 to Stonington, Connecticut. Descendants and relatives lived in New England, New York, Michigan, Illinois, Virginia, Tennessee, Texas, California and elsewhere. Includes some ancestry and genealogical data in England to the early 1500s. The genealogical data contained in Baldwin and Clift's "The descendants of Captain George Denison" (1881) is is included in this book, as is also the genealogical data from various smaller works
The Cincinnati Directory for ...
Author: The Walther League Messenger
Author: No Accident
Author: Neil ArasonPublisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 1554589657
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 499
Book Description
It is possible to eliminate death and serious injury from Canada’s roads. In other jurisdictions, the European Union, centres in the United States, and at least one automotive company aim to achieve comparable results as early as 2020. In Canada, though, citizens must turn their thinking on its head and make road safety a national priority. Since the motor vehicle first went into mass production, the driver has taken most of the blame for its failures. In a world where each person’s safety is dependent on a system in which millions of drivers must drive perfectly over billions of hours behind the wheel, failure on a massive scale has been the result. When we neglect the central role of the motor vehicle as a dangerous consumer product, the result is one of the largest human-made means for physically assaulting human beings. It is time for Canadians to embrace internationally recognized ways of thinking and enter an era in which the motor vehicle by-product of human carnage is relegated to history. No Accident examines problems related to road safety and makes recommendations for the way forward. Topics include types of drivers; human-related driving errors related to fatigue, speed, alcohol, and distraction and roads; pedestrians, cyclists, and public transit; road engineering; motor vehicle regulation; auto safety design; and collision-avoidance technologies such as radar and camera-based sensors on vehicles that prevent crashes. This multi-disciplinary study demystifies the world of road safety and provides a road map for the next twenty years.
Genealogy of the Olmsted Family in America
Author: Henry King OlmstedPublisher: Franklin Classics
ISBN: 9780342243334
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Languages : en
Pages : 690
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The Winchell Genealogy
Author: Newton Horace WinchellPublisher: Franklin Classics Trade Press
ISBN: 9780343924034
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Languages : en
Pages : 658
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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