 The fire waste touches the pocket of every man, woman and child in the nation; it strikes as surely but as quietly as indirect taxation; it merges with the cost of everything we eat and drink and wear. The profligate burning every year of $230,000,000...  Journal of the Western Society of Engineers - Page 247by Western Society of Engineers (Chicago, Ill.) - 1914Full view - About this book
 | Engineering - 1913 - 760 pages
...waste, they will be led to take such precautions as will soon result in a reduction of the fire tax. The fire waste touches the pocket of every man, woman...men's hands means the inevitable impoverishment of the nation. , What if we were to lose that sum annually out of the National Treasury, or in wheat, or corn,... | |
 | 1917 - 602 pages
...! And yet every match is a potential conflagration. Fire from a single match may burn a whole city. The fire waste touches the pocket of every man, woman...drink and wear. The profligate burning every year of $230,000,000 in the value of work of men's hands means the inevitable impoverishment of the people.... | |
 | Political science - 1917 - 366 pages
...insulted! And yet every match is a potential conflagration. Fire from a single match may burn a whole city. The fire waste touches the pocket of every man, woman...drink and wear. The profligate burning every year of $230,000,000 in the value of work of men's hands means the inevitable impoverishment of the people.... | |
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