Author: Samuel Morgan B. 1869 Alvord
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781362288190
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 864

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Author: United States. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
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ISBN:
Category : Banks and banking
Languages : en
Pages : 646

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Author: United States. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
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ISBN:
Category : Banks and banking
Languages : en
Pages : 1354

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Author: John Syng Dorsey
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ISBN:
Category : Surgery
Languages : en
Pages : 484

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Author: United States. Department of the Treasury
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Category : Finance, Public
Languages : en
Pages : 624

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Author: Albert Alonzo Pomeroy
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ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 630

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Author: United States. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
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ISBN:
Category : Banking law
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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Author: Michael R. Lemov
Publisher: 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.

Author: Missouri. Office of the Secretary of State
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Category : Executive departments
Languages : en
Pages : 1516

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Author: Clovis H. Brakebill
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Category : Military history
Languages : en
Pages : 700

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