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Teddy Roosevelt: “For the entire country, therefore, it is safe to say that the deaths due to industrial accidents aggregate in the…”

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For the entire country, therefore, it is safe to say that the deaths due to industrial accidents aggregate in the neighborhood of twenty thousand a year.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt estimates that industrial accidents result in approximately twenty thousand deaths annually in the U.S.

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