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Fifty Years of a Civilizing Force : An Historical and a Critical Study of the Work of the National Board of Fire Underwriters (Classic Reprint) (9781332127672)



Excerpt from Fifty Years of a Civilizing Force: An Historical and a Critical Study of the Work of the National Board of Fire Underwriters The united states might well have been named Terra del F nego - Land of Fire. It has an aver age of I 500 fires per day, or more than one a minute, a daily loss of A value equal to one quarter the total for all the new buildings erected each year is thus destroyed, and in 1906 this propor tion rose to one-half. Every fire subtracts a definite sum from the national wealth through irretrievable loss. This country is proud of its petroleum, gold, silver, and copper production, but its fire-tax - the direct cost of its fires and the incidental expenditures resulting therefrom - consumes as much wealth as these four industries together create. Fire is one of the great outstanding economic factors of American civilization, and, in consequence, fire insurance has become one of our most familiar institutions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.


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  • Paperback | 376 pages
  • 152 x 229 x 20mm | 503g
  • London, United Kingdom
  • English
  • 47 Illustrations; Illustrations, black and white
  • 1332127673
  • 9781332127672


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