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Elizabeth WinterEWinterNM
2023-04-29

How Regulation Came to Be: Santa Barbara Oil Spill (30th in series)

Dawn dish soap wasn’t introduced until 1973. It’s been employed in every oil spill since Santa Barbara

dailykos.com/stories/2010/1/24

Elizabeth WinterEWinterNM
2023-04-22

How Regulation Came to Be: Francis Oldham Kelsey - The Power of One (29th in series)

With the tomfoolery regarding the rogue judge in Amarillo vis-a-vis mifepristone, it might be a good time to revisit the FDA review of a drug which really was harmful, thalidomide.

dailykos.com/stories/2010/1/17

Elizabeth WinterEWinterNM
2023-04-14

How Regulation Came to Be: Toy Safety (28th in series)

Republished with the approval of the series author.

dailykos.com/stories/2009/12/2

Elizabeth WinterEWinterNM
2023-04-12

How Regulation Came to Be: The Flexner Report (27th in series)

What were the requirements to hang out your shingle as a doctor in the 1800s? How were they modernized?

dailykos.com/stories/2010/4/25

Association

Elizabeth WinterEWinterNM
2023-04-11

How Regulation Came to Be: Eastland Disaster (26th in series)

A two hour cruise?

dailykos.com/stories/2010/5/23

Elizabeth WinterEWinterNM
2023-04-09

How Regulation Came to Be: The Great Molasses Flood

Molasses flowing in January. (Some of it uphill since it was a 15 foot wall of molasses.)

dailykos.com/stories/2009/12/2

Tank

Elizabeth WinterEWinterNM
2023-04-09

How Regulation Came to Be: Our Lady of the Angels (24th in series)

Once upon a time, fires were the biggest danger in schools. The reaction to this tragic fire made a huge difference.

dailykos.com/stories/2009/11/2

Elizabeth WinterEWinterNM
2023-04-06

How Regulation Came to Be: Monongah Mine Explosion (23d in series)

dailykos.com/stories/2015/3/15


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Elizabeth WinterEWinterNM
2023-04-05

How Regulation Came to Be: The Who concert tragedy, Cincinnati 1970 (22nd in series)

dailykos.com/stories/2013/2/24

Elizabeth WinterEWinterNM
2023-04-04

How Regulation Came to Be: Truman Highway Safety Conferences: (21st in series)

In the beginning, you just bought the car. No licenses or registration required.

dailykos.com/stories/2013/2/17

Elizabeth WinterEWinterNM
2023-04-03

Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Revisited (20th in series)

Many of the egregious problems leading to the 1911 fire in New York have been exported. There was an all too similar fire in Bangladesh a century later in 2012.

dailykos.com/stories/2012/11/2

Elizabeth WinterEWinterNM
2023-04-02

How Regulation Came to Be: Triangle Shirtwaist Fire (19th in series)

Just east of Washington Square Park in downtown Manhattan is the building that once housed the Triangle Shirtwaist Co. It’s now part of NYU. All that remains is a plaque.

dailykos.com/stories/2010/3/21

Elizabeth WinterEWinterNM
2023-04-01

How Regulation Came to Be: Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (18th in series)

Only just learning to use hastags. Originally published 2012.

dailykos.com/stories/2012/4/29

Elizabeth WinterEWinterNM
2023-03-31

How Regulation Came to Be: Pasteurization (17th in series)

I’m re-pubishing this series with permission of the author. Could have made a good book.

dailykos.com/stories/2012/3/25

Elizabeth WinterEWinterNM
2023-03-30

How Regulation Came to Be: Cherry Mine, pt. 3 (16th in series)

In the aftermath of the St. Paul Coal Mine disaster at Cherry, Illinois, which killed 259 workers, various laws & regulations & oversight were inaugurated.

dailykos.com/stories/2009/11/1

Elizabeth WinterEWinterNM
2023-03-29

How Regulation Came to Be: Hotel Fires, pt. 2 (15th in series)

An Atlanta hotel fire in December 1946 had a greater death toll than the three June 1946 hotel fires reviewed in the previous entry in this series, Hotel Fires pt. 1, combined.

dailykos.com/stories/2009/11/1

Elizabeth WinterEWinterNM
2023-03-28

How Regulation Came to Be: Hotel Fires, pt. 1 (14th in series)

Post-War 1946 was quite a year for fires in luxury high-rise hotels.

dailykos.com/stories/2009/10/2

Elizabeth WinterEWinterNM
2023-03-27

How Regulation Came to Be: Confined Spaces (13th in series)

dailykos.com/stories/2009/10/1

Elizabeth WinterEWinterNM
2023-03-26

How Regulation Came to Be: Donora Zinc Mill (#12 in series)

1948: People were dropping dead in the street, but the mill owners (U.S. Steel) refused to close the mill until the weather changed. Until wind & rain could clear the air.

dailykos.com/stories/2009/6/28
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Elizabeth WinterEWinterNM
2023-03-25

How Regulation Came to Be: Fire Safety in City Buildings (#11 in series)

Nearly 500 people perished in a Boston night club fire, 1943. As a result, the nation got more serious about fire safety.

dailykos.com/stories/2009/6/14

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