30 results for “General Electric”, page 1 of 2
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · February 6, 1957
J-M Correspondence on Funding a Cardio-Pulmonary Laboratory at Middlesex General Hospital (1957)
A file of letters and memos from February to July 1957 on a request that J-M help pay for a cardio-pulmonary function laboratory at Middlesex General Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Dr. Joseph…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · December 21, 1959
Dr. Kenneth W. Smith to General Motors and Firestone on Asbestos Fiber (1959)
…knew describes this document as follows: Dr. K.W. Smith response (12/21/59) to General Motors' and Firestone Tire & Rubber Company's request for information regarding asbestos fiber. Dr. Smith states that it is a …
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Company document · WARD Documents · May 21, 1970
C. L. Sheckler to J. R. M. Hutcheson on Respirators for Asbestos at the Jeffrey Mine (1970)
A three-page Johns-Manville memo of May 21, 1970, from C. L. Sheckler at General Headquarters to J. R. M. Hutcheson of the Asbestos Fibre Division at Asbestos, Quebec, on "Respiratory Protection for Asbestos." Sheckler…
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Company document · WARD Documents · June 25, 1958
C. L. Sheckler's Manville Plant Memo on Standard Respirators for the Dust Abatement Program (1958)
…one-page memo of June 25, 1958, from C. L. Sheckler at J-M's Manville General Plant in New Jersey, headed "Dust Abatement Program, Respirators," with copies to H. M. Jackson and the store rooms…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · November 30, 1961
C. L. Sheckler to All Industrial Relations Managers on Union Requests for Dust Count Records (1961)
…no constructive purpose, could be readily misinterpreted, and adversely utilized." Recommends that if it becomes essential to discuss such information, the discussion should be kept as general as possible and specific atmospheric, hygiene, medical, workmen's…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · May 13, 1964
C. L. Sheckler to C. H. Grote and L. Hemerda on Trying Manville Occupational Disease Claims (1964)
A two-page confidential memo of May 13, 1964, from C. L. Sheckler at Johns-Manville's General Headquarters to C. H. Grote and L. Hemerda at the Manville, New Jersey, plant about a wave of…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · May 13, 1964
C. L. Sheckler to G. H. Gould on Delaying Help for a Manville Worker with Early Asbestosis (1964)
…1964, from C. L. Sheckler at Johns-Manville's General Headquarters to G. H. Gould at the Manville plant about a woman employee (her name is blank on this copy) whose X-rays Dr. Kenneth W…
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Book · JM Knowledge Chronology · 1955
Kenneth W. Smith, "Asbestosis," Chapter 2 of The Pneumoconioses (1955)
…Among those workers who Dr. Smith has followed over the last 18 years and who have been exposed only to chrysotile fiber, there have been no more cases of lung cancer than among the general population.
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Company document · WARD Documents · October 28, 1970
C. L. Sheckler to T. P. Williams on Respirators for Construction Job Sites and Fabrication Shops (1970)
…and R. R. Standel, and a received stamp of J-M's Office of the General Counsel. Sheckler recommended "that respiratory equipment be provided and used on construction job sites, and in fabrication shops, where Asbestos…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · May 8, 1968
C. L. Sheckler to Frank H. Zimmerman on Agreement over the Asbestos-Cement Health Safety Booklet (1968)
…noted "an apparent difference of opinion" among the council members, said Certain-Teed, General Aniline and Film, and Johns-Manville had tentatively approved the draft, and wrote that unanimous agreement on any publication dealing with health…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · March 15, 1968
C. L. Sheckler to H. M. Ball on the Resale of Used Fiber Bags (1968)
…L. Sheckler of Johns-Manville's Environmental Control Department to H. M. Ball, the company's general counsel, with a copy to H. M. Jackson. Sheckler reports that many J-M locations were selling empty used…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · August 3, 1954
Dr. David T. DuBow and Dr. Kenneth W. Smith on Warning Fibrocel Installers About Perlite (1954)
…DuBow tells Dr. Smith that it has been suggested that "the general sales force be alerted with respect to the potential health hazards in the use of expanded perlite." Dr. Smith responds (8/16/54) that…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · July 7, 1961
Dr. David T. DuBow, Dr. Kenneth W. Smith and C. H. Grote on Releasing Medical Records to Insurance Companies (1961)
…the Johns-Manville Corporation," and asked Dr. Kenneth W. Smith whether J-M had a general policy. Smith replied on July 19 that with proper authorization the records could be revealed, but "only when the employee…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · January 25, 1954
Dr. Kenneth W. Smith to A. J. Maahs on a Warning for Ring-Tite Lubricant (1954)
…lubricant, used with J-M's Ring-Tite pipe coupling. "In general," Smith wrote, "when a toxic hazard associated with one of our products has been established all employees working in the fields of research, production…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · March 18, 1958
Johns-Manville Memos on a Caution Label for Marinite (1958)
…Herbert Morton Ball, J-M's secretary and general attorney, warned that a dusty situation at the Newport News Shipbuilding yard "may result in extensive legal liability" and urged a label on the back of the…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · December 19, 1944
Kenneth Smith to F. G. Lippert on Workers Handling Bags of South African Blue Fibre (1944)
…to F. G. Lippert at J-M's general headquarters in New York, headed "South African Blue Fibre." A shipment of 10,000 jute bags marked "Blue C & G" had arrived from California, and because much…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · February 10, 1950
Kenneth W. Smith to R. S. Gardner on the Causes of Lung Cancer (1950)
…and fumes are known to cause lung cancer," he wrote, but he knew of no definite hazard from that source in J-M's general operations. "The chief causes of lung cancer are dust and certain…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · July 17, 1958
Ralph M. Barley, Herbert Ball and Dr. Kenneth Smith on Raybestos-Manhattan's Asbestosis and Lung Cancer Claims (1958)
…wrote to Herbert Morton Ball, Johns-Manville's secretary and general attorney, that the company "has a great many cases of asbestosis" from its Manheim plant and now faced a claim (the Geiman case) linking asbestosis…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · December 30, 1957
Dr. Kenneth Smith to Ivan Sabourin on the Condensed Industrial Hygiene Foundation Survey (1957)
…stressing that "the hypothesis that asbestos miners do not have a higher mortality from lung cancer than does the general population cannot be rejected." He also agreed with Doctors Cartier and Braun that some workers "probably…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · April 18, 1957
Dr. Kenneth W. Smith to A. J. Stenari on a Customer's Silicosis Question about Steam-Cured Asbestos Cement (1957)
…such inquiries should be handled one at a time, and "it is the responsibility of the General Attorney to approve all written or oral representations to customers in the field of occupational health." In 1957, then…