39 results for “General Electric”, page 1 of 2
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · June 9, 1955
Asbestos Textile Institute General Meeting Minutes Rejecting an Autopsy Study, with the Asbestosis Research Proposal (1955)
Two pages of minutes of the Asbestos Textile Institute's general meeting of June 9, 1955, in Philadelphia, presided over by F. J. Wakem of Johns-Manville, with the two-page Air Hygiene Committee "Proposal for…
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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 · JM Knowledge Chronology · February 25, 1969
H. M. Jackson to Dr. John P. McCann of General Dynamics on Insulation Work at Groton (1969)
…Johns-Manville's chronology Johns-Manville's own chronology of what the company knew describes this document as follows: Letter from Jackson to McCann of General Dynamics Corporation following a trip made by Jackson and Dr…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · June 9, 1955
Asbestos Textile Institute Minutes Calling an Autopsy Study Ill-Advised (1955)
…Its index describes this document as follows: ATI Meeting Minutes, 6/9/55 - General Meeting. The proposal for research recently submitted to the Institute by the Air Hygiene Committee covering the two projects: (1) a cardio…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · May 25, 1960
H. M. Jackson to A. R. Girardi on the Nashua Press Department Dust Collector (1960)
…from H. M. Jackson, J-M's manager of industrial health, at general headquarters to A. R. Girardi, on Nashua (New Hampshire) Appropriation 012-IR-1090, an $87,950 revision of the press department's dust…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · December 30, 1958
H. M. Jackson to All Industrial Relations Managers on Threshold Limit Values for Mixed Dusts (1958)
A one-page memo of December 30, 1958, from Johns-Manville's general headquarters to all industrial relations managers, by H. M. Jackson, manager of J-M's industrial health program, on applying the threshold limit…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · February 18, 1970
H. M. Jackson to Dr. T. H. Davison Asking for a Survey of Plant Physical Examination Programs (1970)
A confidential one-page memo of February 18, 1970, from H. M. Jackson at J-M's general headquarters to Dr. T. H. Davison at Waukegan, asking him to survey all plant locations before the Policy…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · April 6, 1954
H. M. Jackson to G. S. Smith on J-M's Own Threshold Limit for Asbestos (1954)
…TLV). In Johns-Manville's chronology Johns-Manville's own chronology of what the company knew describes this document as follows: Jackson Memorandum to G.S. Smith, General Engineering Manville, 4/6/54, Re: Threshold Limits…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · March 20, 1968
H. M. Jackson to K. V. Lindell Approving the Proposed Caution Label for Asbestos Fiber (1968)
A short memo of March 20, 1968, from H. M. Jackson at Johns-Manville's general headquarters to K. V. Lindell at the Jeffrey Mine in Quebec, copied to H. M. Ball and C. L. Sheckler…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · September 14, 1953
H. M. Jackson to O. B. Westmont on the Lompoc Housekeeping Procedures Manual (1953)
A short memo of September 14, 1953, from Johns-Manville's General Headquarters to O. B. Westmont at the Lompoc, California, diatomaceous earth plant, answering his letter of August 20 about the plant's new housekeeping…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · September 29, 1959
H. M. Jackson to R. B. Frandsen on Threshold Limits for Asbestos-Cement Products at Waukegan (1959)
…of September 29, 1959, from H. M. Jackson at Johns-Manville's General Headquarters to R. B. Frandsen at the Waukegan plant, answering Frandsen's letter of September 18 on threshold limit values. Jackson wrote that…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · September 19, 1949
H. M. Jackson's Memorandum of the Manville Industrial Hygiene Meeting on Special Cases (1949)
…confidential one-page memorandum of September 19, 1949, by H. M. Jackson at J-M's General Headquarters, recording a meeting on September 14 about industrial hygiene at the Manville, New Jersey, plant, attended by F…
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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 · JM Knowledge Chronology · September 7, 1955
Asbestos Textile Institute Air Hygiene Committee Minutes on the Quebec Mining Association's Report (1955)
…earlier the textile makers had turned down an autopsy study because of its implications about cancer (June 1955 general meeting). In Johns-Manville's chronology Johns-Manville's own chronology of what the company knew describes…
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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 17, 1971
H. M. Jackson to Dr. G. W. Wright and Dr. T. H. Davison on Dr. Enterline's Retiree Study Findings (1971)
…Dr. Enterline commented that in the "non-exposure" plants, maintenance and service personnel had a higher incidence of bronchogenic cancer, whereas production personnel had general population equivalent rates. He also said that at the Asbestos, Quebec…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · December 18, 1956
H. M. Jackson to Schilling on the Travelers Dust Survey of the Manville Pipe Department (1956)
…to Schilling at the Manville plant on a survey of the pipe department in "P" Building made by the Travelers insurance company's laboratory. Jackson writes that the counts "in general" showed adequate control, with exceptions…