Browse Items (14 total)

'Bootlegging coal', Harpers

Tags: 1930s; 1935; 1935-4-1; Anthracite coal; Anthracite coal industry; Black market; Carlson, Oliver; Coal miners; Coal mines and mining; Corrupt practices; Earth Sciences; Economic conditions; Employment; Geology

'Mutiny of the car dealers', Harpers

Tags: 1950s; 1956; 1956-8-1; Automobile dealers; Automobile industry and trade; Automobiles; Corrupt practices; Engineering; Kelley, Hubert W. , Jr; Law and legislation; Legislative hearings; Mechanical Engineering; Purchasing; United States

'The strange ethics of the ethical drug industry', Harpers

Tags: 1960; 1960-5-1; 1960s; Advertising; Corrupt practices; Drugs; Drugs and Pharmaceuticals; Law and legislation; Legislative hearings; Medicine; Pharmaceutical ethics; Pharmaceutical industry; Prices; Research; Rozental, Alek Aron; United States

'Shell housing', Harpers

Tags: 1960s; 1962; 1962-4-1; Architecture; Construction industry; Consumer credit; Corrupt practices; Costs; Design and construction; Do-it-yourself products industry; Dwellings; Engineering; Home ownership; Housing; Production standards; Purchasing; Single family; United States; Watkins, A. M. (Arthur Martin)

'Oil shale', Harpers

Tags: 1960s; 1968; 1968-8-1; Corrupt practices; Energy Engineering; Engineering; Northwestern States; Petroleum industry and trade; Shale; Shale oils; United States; Welles, Chris

'Universities as big business', Harpers

Tags: 1960s; 1968; 1968-9-1; College teachers; Corrupt practices; Economic conditions; Education; Faculty; Finance; Industry and education; Ridgeway, James; Social sciences; United States; Universities and colleges

'The aircraft brake scandal', Harpers

Tags: 1970s; 1972; 1972-4-1; Aeronautics and Aerospace; Airplanes; B.FGoodrich Company; Brakes; Business ethics; Corrupt practices; Engineering; Fraud; Kermit Vandivier; United States; Vandivier, Kermit

'The curious case of the indicted meat inspectors', Harpers

Tags: 1970s; 1972; 1972-9-1; Biology; Bribery; Corrupt practices; Discipline; Ed Wywiorski; Employees; Food inspectors; Meat inspection; Packing-houses; Schuck, Peter H.; United States; United StatesDeptof Agriculture; Zoology

'The great transportation conspiracy', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1981; 1981-2-1; Corporations; Corrupt practices; Engineering; etc.; General Motors Corporation; Industrial concentration; Kwitny, Jonathan; litigation; Mechanical Engineering; Ownership; Trials; United States; Urban transportation; Urban transportation policy

'An environmental vision thing', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1992; 1992-10-1; Corrupt practices; Earth Sciences; L. Lorraine Mintzmyer; Mintzmyer, L. Lorraine; Officials and employees; United StatesDeptof Interior; United StatesNational Park Service

'The drug industry�s bogus science', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1995; 1995-5-1; Corrupt practices; Drugs; Drugs and Pharmaceuticals; Kessler, David A.; Medicine; Pharmaceutical industry; Testing; United States

'What Medicare covers', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1996; 1996-11-1; Corrupt practices; Hospitals; Medicare fraud; Medicine; Pennsylvania; Philadelphia; Staffing, Funding and Institutions

'The Star Wars conspiracy', Harpers

Tags: 2000; 2000-8-1; 2000s; Aeronautics and Aerospace; Ballistic missile defenses; Corrupt practices; Engineering; Postol, Theodore A.; Research; United States; United StatesBallistic Missile Defense Organization

'Welcome to the machine', Harpers

Tags: 2000s; 2004; 2004-4-1; 21st century; Computer hackers; Corrupt practices; Election; Elections; Engineering; Information Technology; Koerner, Brendan I.; Presidents; United States; Voting-machines