R. R. Spencer and Ludvig Hektoen to Leroy Gardner Asking for a Statement on Asbestosis (1943)

Two one-page letters to Dr. Leroy Gardner about his pending grant application. On September 13, 1943, Dr. R. R. Spencer, chief of the National Cancer Institute, acknowledged a corrected budget and noted that the Saranac Laboratory operated financially as part of the Trudeau Foundation. On September 27 Dr. Ludvig Hektoen of the National Advisory Cancer Council wrote that the laboratory's application "for $10,000 in aid of a study of the relation of asbestosis to pulmonary carcinoma" would be considered at the Council's next meeting, and asked for "a brief statement of the main factors in regard to asbestosis." Gardner's answer is his letter of September 29.

In Johns-Manville's chronology

Johns-Manville's own chronology of what the company knew describes this document as follows:

Letters dated 9/13/1943 and 9/27/1943 from NCI US PHS to Dr. Gardner confirm receipt of his proposed budget for his grant and also ask for a brief statement on asbestosis to be presented with his application at the NCI meeting

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