Fiftieth Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioner for the year ending December 1, 1927

This report contains information about the Fiftieth Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners of the year ending December 1, 1927

Gambling with lives: A history of occupational health in southern Nevada, 1905--2010

In April 2009, the Pulitzer committee awarded its public service prize to the Las Vegas Sun for its coverage of the high fatalities on Las Vegas Strip construction sites. The newspaper attributed failures in safety policy to the exponential growth in the Las Vegas market. In fact, since Las Vegas\u27 founding in 1905, rapid development in the region has always strained occupational health standards. From transporting hazardous railroad cargoes to building Hoover Dam, chemical processing at Basic Magnesium, nuclear testing, and dense megaresort construction on the Strip, workers, residents, and tourists alike have been exposed to the threat of living in close proximity to large-scale industries. In the process, workplace injuries and fatalities became an accepted risk. The safety lapses produced several cataclysmic disasters- carbon monoxide poisoning at Hoover Dam, atmospheric nuclear testing and the Baneberry disaster at the Nevada Test Site, the MGM Grand and Hilton fires, and the Pacific Engineering Production Company of Nevada (PEPCON) explosion. After each disaster, public outcry prompted federal, state, and municipal governments to implement rigorous changes. But in the probusiness state of Nevada, laissez-faire always prevailed. Adherence to occupational health has therefore been historically boom and bust in southern Nevada. This study examines the region\u27s most hazardous industries, emphasizing how the medical community interpreted and responded to the risks they posed. While existing scholarship discusses the region\u27s political, economic, and cultural history, none examines the intersections of medical and labor history. It advances the scholarship by providing the first comprehensive history of occupational health at southern Nevada\u27s public works, defense, and resort industries. Since no other place contains this mixture of industrial and postindustrial sites, the region offers unique opportunities to evaluate the development of health care and safety in the twentieth century American workplace. By providing a deeper understanding of the history of occupational health crises and responses, the study informs efforts to address present and future crises in the region

The Conflict of Laws: A Comparative Study. Volume Three. Special Obligations: Modification and Discharge of Obligations

Among the multitude of conflicts principles that, according to various claims, should determine the law applicable to all contracts, only two have resisted the test of critical analysis. These, indeed, form an adequate groundwork. First, the freedom of parties to choose the law applicable to their contract must be recognized as a general rule without petty restraint. Second, in the absence of such agreement, a contract should be governed by the law most closely connected with its characteristic feature. The first proposition is essential to the second. To deny party autonomy means rigid conflicts rules created by some superior authority. A scholastic doctrine may invest the law of the place of contracting with ineluctable force; a state may forbid stipulations for a foreign law. However, our modest task requires but a reasonable choice of law advisable for average use by courts and legislatures. This cannot aspire to ascertain more than subsidiary rules. It is not possible to achieve anything practical by attempting to coerce the parties into an inexorable law of our creation. This conception is perfectly consistent with a considered regard to the large significance of public law at the present time. It even allows and facilitates a line of thought leading to the subsidiary application of the private law of that state which, by its administrative law, preponderantly regulates certain kinds of business. This will appear in such contracts as maritime carriage of goods, employment, and msurance.https://repository.law.umich.edu/michigan_legal_studies/1008/thumbnail.jp

The Conflict of Laws: A Comparative Study. Volume Three. Special Obligations: Modification and Discharge of Obligations

Among the multitude of conflicts principles that, according to various claims, should determine the law applicable to all contracts, only two have resisted the test of critical analysis. These, indeed, form an adequate groundwork. First, the freedom of parties to choose the law applicable to their contract must be recognized as a general rule without petty restraint. Second, in the absence of such agreement, a contract should be governed by the law most closely connected with its characteristic feature. The first proposition is essential to the second. To deny party autonomy means rigid conflicts rules created by some superior authority. A scholastic doctrine may invest the law of the place of contracting with ineluctable force; a state may forbid stipulations for a foreign law. However, our modest task requires but a reasonable choice of law advisable for average use by courts and legislatures. This cannot aspire to ascertain more than subsidiary rules. It is not possible to achieve anything practical by attempting to coerce the parties into an inexorable law of our creation. This conception is perfectly consistent with a considered regard to the large significance of public law at the present time. It even allows and facilitates a line of thought leading to the subsidiary application of the private law of that state which, by its administrative law, preponderantly regulates certain kinds of business. This will appear in such contracts as maritime carriage of goods, employment, and msurance.https://repository.law.umich.edu/michigan_legal_studies/1008/thumbnail.jp

Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, 1887

Annual Message to Congress with Documents; Pres. Cleveland. 6 Dec. HED 1, 50-1. v1-15. 14260p. [2532-2547] Annual report of the Sec. of War (Serials 2533-2538); annual report of the Sec. of Interior (Serials 2541-2546): annual report of the Gen. Land Office (Serial 2541); annual report of the CIA (Serial 2542); etc

Airlines and Air Mail: The Post Office and the Birth of the Commercial Aviation Industry

Conventional wisdom credits only entrepreneurs with the vision to create America’s commercial airline industry and contends that it was not until Roosevelt’s Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938 that federal airline regulation began. In Airlines and Air Mail, F. Robert van der Linden persuasively argues that Progressive republican policies of Herbert Hoover actually fostered the growth of American commercial aviation. Air mail contracts provided a critical indirect subsidy and a solid financial foundation for this nascent industry. Postmaster General Walter F. Brown used these contracts as a carrot and a stick to ensure that the industry developed in the public interest while guaranteeing the survival of the pioneering companies. Bureaucrats, entrepreneurs, and politicians of all stripes are thoughtfully portrayed in this thorough chronicle of one of America’s most resounding successes, the commercial aviation industry. F. Robert van der Linden, curator of air transportation at the Smithsonian Institution\u27s National Air and Space Museum, is the author of The Boeing 247: The First Modern Airliner.https://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_history_of_science_technology_and_medicine/1001/thumbnail.jp

The Clan of Toil: Piney Woods Labor Relations in the Trans-Mississippi South, 1880-1920. (Volumes I-III).

Lumber boomed in the Reconstructed South, an industrial binge that, by 1920, changed the landscape, first removing the forest then replacing its subsistence economy with consumerism. Men with money made fortunes in lumber. West of the Mississippi and south of the Missouri, it became a bonanza by 1880. Within these boundaries, black and white farmers and field hands sought public work in sawmills and log fronts. Most were unskilled. Steam power changed their lives, although all did not respond alike. They kept their folk ways, consistent with the new industry, despite their bondage to machines. Although most workers voluntarily entered the proletariat, perceptions of capitalist injustice led many flatheads to try radical remedies, notably industrial unionism. Others turned to radical vigilantism, creating citizens\u27 committees to fight the union. Company managers hired gunmen to support the Southern Lumber Operators\u27 Association black list of undesirable workers, infected with unionism. The Brotherhood of Timber Workers did not expand from a base in West Louisiana. Lumbermen congratulated themselves on their costly victory, even as it became painfully apparent that it was hollow. Legislators quickly enacted virtually every union demand. Then war in Europe forced wages, and prices, to exorbitant levels. Although the union soon faded from memory, the lumbermen, nearly as quickly, vanished with the wild timber. They left on the next society marks that can only be described as modern

Principal and Agent

Prof. Goddard\u27s 500-page entry under the subject, co-authored with Louis L. Hammon. Preceded by a 15-page outline

Buffalo Dancer: The Biography of an Image.

This dissertation is the first book-length study to bridge American and Native American art histories and Native studies. To do so, it develops methods of image biography, or following a particular image through space and time. The image in question begins as Karl Bodmer’s watercolor portrait of a Numak'aki [Mandan] Benók Óhate [buffalo bull society] leader, later titled Mandan Buffalo Dancer (1834). Starting from its creation point in Indian Territory, the narrative subsequently tracks Mandan Buffalo Dancer in and out of various historical and cultural contexts, forms, and genres across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, in both Native American and non-Native settings. Tracing how this story’s various agents utilized print (broadly construed as processes of technological image reproduction), I argue that nineteenth-century systems of racial oppression, based on visual criteria of difference, emerged in part through the very mechanics by which print operates. These mechanics underwrote not only a system of racial notation--the very language of “stereotype,” “cliché,” and “racial typing” belie their sourcing in print technologies--but also a larger, wide-ranging system of knowledge reproduction and distribution that facilitated the containment of Native peoples under the logics of Manifest Destiny. Simultaneously, Native American communities employed print (or auratic cultural practices that reproduce social memory) to promote the continuation of Native societies. These two long histories of print fed the rise of Native political activism in the 1960s and 1970s, as Native communities and artists worked to transform the historical effects of Manifest Destiny’s print enterprise. Writing these histories in parallel, this project produces an infrastructural study of print image production and valuation. It develops a critical, historical, and cross-cultural language for North American print studies. Finally, in assembling its archive of paintings, prints, drawings, photographs, diaries and letters, advertisements, archaeological artifacts, architecture, journalism, ethnological reports, political cartoons, museum displays, literature, and Native language, this study boldly re-imagines its methodological contact zone, whereby Native histories challenge long-standing paradigms of American art history, visual and material culture takes a significant place in Native studies, and Native art history interprets its objects through local languages, histories, and cosmologies.PHDHistory of ArtUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/133439/1/kkronan_1.pd