Author: Galveston
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Category : Galveston (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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Revised Ordinances of the City of Galveston, to June 1st, 1917
Author: Galveston
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Galveston (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Galveston (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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Revised Ordinances of the City of Galveston, to June 1st, 1917
Author: Galveston (Tex.).
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Category : Local laws
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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Category : Local laws
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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Charters of the City of Galveston
Author: Galveston (Tex.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 156
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Languages : en
Pages : 156
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Petroleum and Public Safety
Author: James B. McSwain
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807169145
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 417
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Throughout 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.
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807169145
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Throughout 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.
Charter and Revised Ordinances of the City of Galveston, and All Ordinances in Force to December 1, 1875, the Standing Rules of the City Council, and Catalogue of the City Government from L839 to 1875, Inclusive
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Category : Galveston (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 402
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Category : Galveston (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 402
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Charter of the City of Galveston and Amendments Thereto, June 1, 1917
Author: Galveston (Tex.).
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Category : Galveston (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 155
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Publisher:
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Category : Galveston (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 155
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Charter and Revised Ordinances of the City of Galveston, and All Ordinances in Force to October, 1883
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Category : Galveston (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 604
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Category : Galveston (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 604
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Charter of the City of Galveston
Author: Galveston (Tex.). Charters
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Category : Galveston (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 508
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Category : Galveston (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 508
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The Commercial and Financial Chronicle
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Category : Banks and banking
Languages : en
Pages : 1914
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Category : Banks and banking
Languages : en
Pages : 1914
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The Daily Bond Buyer
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Category : Bonds
Languages : en
Pages : 842
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Category : Bonds
Languages : en
Pages : 842
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