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A one-page letter of January 19, 1944, from Sumner Simpson, president of Raybestos-Manhattan, to Dr. Leroy Gardner of the Saranac Laboratory, with copies to Vandiver Brown of Johns-Manville and to O. H. Cilley at the Manheim, Pennsylvania, plant. Simpson agreed to let Gardner examine the chest films of the company's Manheim employees, which Dr. Lanza held, and films of job applicants kept at Manheim. He added: "Of course it is understood that our name will not be mentioned in any way in the examination or in your report of the films."
- Author
- Sumner Simpson
- Sent to
- Leroy Gardner
- Published by
- Raybestos-Manhattan
- Date
- January 19, 1944
- Number
- Bates F129049
- Library no.
- ACL Doc 11861 · asbestosclaims.law/library/11861
- Rights
- Republished under fair use for research and historical study.
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What it shows
Simpson allowed one exception: naming the company was "alright" in Gardner's records and for "the Metropolitan Insurance Company," "but I mean general publication." The letter answers the request Gardner raised with Brown earlier that month (Gardner and Brown on the X-ray films).
In Johns-Manville's chronology
Johns-Manville's own chronology of what the company knew describes this document as follows:
Letter from Sumner Simpson to Gardner dated 1/19/44 in which Simpson agrees to make x-ray surveys of Manheim employees available for Gardner's evaluation of the North American clinical experience.
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- Asbestos Timeline
- Leroy Gardner and Vandiver Brown on Reviewing J-M Employees' X-Ray Films (1944)
- Leroy U. Gardner to Sumner Simpson Agreeing Not to Name the Employer (1944)
- Leroy U. Gardner to Sumner Simpson Asking to Review the Manheim X-Ray Films (1944)
- Sumner Simpson to A. S. Blagden of Keasbey & Mattison on Funding Gardner's Asbestos Research (1936)
- The Johns-Manville Knowledge Chronology
- The Sumner Simpson Papers
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“Sumner Simpson to Leroy Gardner on Reviewing Raybestos-Manhattan's Manheim X-Ray Films.” January 19, 1944. Bates F129049. Raybestos-Manhattan. AsbestosClaims.Law Library, ACL Doc 11861. https://asbestosclaims.law/library/11861.
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