E. R. Weidlein, Research at Mellon Institute during 1938-1939, in Industrial and Engineering Chemistry (1939)

A ten-page reprint from the News Edition of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, April 10, 1939: "Research at Mellon Institute during 1938-1939," an abstract of the annual report of the institute's director, E. R. Weidlein, to its trustees. Most of it describes industrial fellowships at the Pittsburgh institute. A section on the "Investigational Advances of Air Hygiene Foundation of America" says the 250 corporations in the Foundation had contributed to the welfare of about "1,000,000 workmen, and therefore to 'the general social good.'"

What it shows

The Air Hygiene Foundation section reports its work for members in 1938 and 1939: engineering bulletins, a digest of industrial health literature, a legal survey of compensation laws, and studies under research grants at Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and the Saranac Laboratory. It reports Dr. Leroy Gardner's findings on "mixed" dusts at Saranac, and quotes T. C. Waters, chairman of the Foundation's legal committee, on the occupational disease laws that twenty-one states had already passed and that the 1939 legislatures would add to. The Foundation sent the reprint to its members, Raybestos-Manhattan among them (its covering note).

In Johns-Manville's index

Johns-Manville's attorneys indexed the Sumner Simpson Papers. Their index describes this document as follows:

"Research at Mellon Institute during 1938-1939" Portion of report discusses the "Investigational Advances of Air Hyg. Foundation of America." Informs that the Air Hygiene Foundation is a nonprofit organization that represents a collective effort by employers on behalf of their employees. States the 250 corporations affiliated with the Foundation have contributed to the welfare of their 1,000,000 employees and therefore to the "general social good."

Related documents

• H. B. Meller of the Air Hygiene Foundation to Members Sending the Mellon Institute Annual Report (1939)

About this copy

This is document 03650-03659 of the Sumner Simpson Papers, as numbered in the collection's index.