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Bureau of Mines Bulletin 552, Oliver Bowles's 1955 revision of the bureau's 1937 asbestos bulletin. It covers the varieties and properties of asbestos, deposits in the United States and abroad, production, trade, mining and milling, grading, prices and substitutes, and the manufacture of products such as asbestos textiles, shingles, millboard, asbestos-cement pipe, asbestos-magnesia insulation and packings. The introduction puts the value of U.S. asbestos products made in 1952 at over $332 million.
- Author
- Oliver Bowles
- Published by
- USBOM
- Agency
- Bureau of Mines
- Series
- Bulletin 552
- Date
- 1955
- Library no.
- ACL Doc 10937 · asbestosclaims.law/library/10937
- Rights
- US government work, in the public domain.
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Oliver Bowles. “The Asbestos Industry.” 1955. Bulletin 552. USBOM. AsbestosClaims.Law Library, ACL Doc 10937. https://asbestosclaims.law/library/10937.
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