16 results for “General Electric”
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · September 25, 1951
Vandiver Brown to C. B. Martin of General Electric on Dust from Spintex Mineral Wool (1951)
…Manville's chronology Johns-Manville's own chronology of what the company knew describes this document as follows: Vandiver Brown in letter dated 9/25/51 responds to inquiry on 302 Spintex from General Electric Co.…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · June 27, 1951
C. E. Ernst and Vandiver Brown on Answering Pratt & Whitney About Fibrous Adhesive and Insulkote (1951)
…Insulkote, describing them only as "inert mineral fillers." Similar answers to customers that year include Brown's letter to General Electric on Spintex. About this copy The signature on the June 27 memo is partly obscured…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · October 5, 1936
Vandiver Brown to H. B. Meller of the Air Hygiene Foundation on Describing Asbestosis (1936)
A two-page letter of October 5, 1936, from Vandiver Brown, Johns-Manville's general attorney, to H. B. Meller, managing director of the Air Hygiene Foundation of America in Pittsburgh. Brown approves a revised report…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · December 17, 1936
Vandiver Brown to Lewis Silverman of Union Asbestos & Rubber on the Air Hygiene Foundation (1936)
A one-page letter of December 17, 1936, from Vandiver Brown, Johns-Manville's general attorney, to Lewis J. Silverman of Union Asbestos & Rubber Co. (Unarco) in Chicago, thanking him for kind words about the Air…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · December 16, 1941
Vandiver Brown to Lybrand, Ross Bros. & Montgomery on Pending Claims for the 1941 Audit (1941)
A one-page letter of December 16, 1941, from Vandiver Brown, Johns-Manville's general attorney, to G. R. Byrne of the accounting firm Lybrand, Ross Bros. & Montgomery for J-M's annual audit, with a…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · May 10, 1940
Vandiver Brown to Sumner Simpson on Gardner Publishing Without Approval (1940)
A one-page letter of May 10, 1940, from Vandiver Brown, Johns-Manville's general attorney, to Sumner Simpson, president of Raybestos-Manhattan, headed "Dr. Gardner's Experiments." Following up a call from Simpson, Brown enclosed…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · May 3, 1939
Vandiver Brown to Sumner Simpson on the 1938 Saranac Report and the Gardner Agreement (1939)
A two-page letter of May 3, 1939, from Vandiver Brown, Johns-Manville's general attorney, to Sumner Simpson, president of Raybestos-Manhattan. Brown points Simpson to the references to asbestosis in the Saranac Laboratory's…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · October 27, 1948
Vandiver Brown to the Saranac Sponsors Calling a Meeting on the Asbestos Dust Report (1948)
A two-page letter of October 27, 1948, from Vandiver Brown, Johns-Manville's secretary and general attorney, to the companies that paid for the Saranac asbestos experiments: American BrakeBlok, Gatke, Keasbey & Mattison, Raybestos-Manhattan, Russell…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · March 3, 1949
Vandiver Brown to the Saranac Sponsors Enclosing the Revised Report, Asbestos Pneumoconiosis (1949)
An 81-page file: Vandiver Brown's letter of March 3, 1949, as J-M's secretary and general attorney, to the eight other companies that underwrote the Saranac Laboratory asbestos dust experiments (American Brakeblok, Gatke…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · May 11, 1937
Vandiver Brown to Union Asbestos & Rubber Enclosing Gardner's First Progress Report (1937)
A one-paragraph cover letter of May 11, 1937, from Vandiver Brown, Johns-Manville's general attorney, to L. J. Silverman, secretary-treasurer of Union Asbestos & Rubber Company in Chicago, enclosing Dr. Leroy Gardner's "First…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · January 7, 1936
Johns-Manville and Raybestos-Manhattan Letters on Hiring Dust Counter Otto Binder (1936)
…On March 11 Vandiver Brown, J-M's general attorney, told Judd that "the Metropolitan survey of our two companies is now practically completed" and offered Binder to sample dust at R-M plants to check…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · November 20, 1936
Memorandum of Agreement Funding Gardner's Asbestos Experiments at Saranac Laboratory (1936)
…Eleven companies signed. The same day Vandiver Brown, J-M's general attorney, authorized Gardner to begin, "for the purpose of determining more definitely the causes and effects of asbestosis," and set the terms: the results…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · October 1, 1934
Vandiver Brown to M. F. Judd on Occupations Unsuitable for Minors (1934)
…Johns-Manville's attorney, to M. F. Judd, general manager of the Raybestos Division of Raybestos-Manhattan, copied to S. A. Williams. The Code Authority of the Asbestos Industry had asked its members for their opinions…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · November 15, 1940
Vandiver Brown to F. G. Lippert on Metropolitan Life and the Jarratt X-Rays (1940)
…11/15/40, to F.G. Lippert, General Headquarters, expresses the concern that Metropolitan Life is not very enthusiastic about continuing to examine and interpret the pre-employment x-rays made at Jarratt. V. Brown says…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · January 18, 1935
Vandiver Brown's Memorandum on the Mellon Institute Symposium on Dust Problems (1935)
…first answer was that it saw no need for the Mellon Institute's services yet (Raybestos-Manhattan's general manager to Brown). In Johns-Manville's chronology Johns-Manville's own chronology of what the company…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · November 7, 1950
Vandiver Brown to J. P. Woodard on Dr. Vorwald's Aluminum Hydroxide Proposal and Publication Rights (1950)
…Dr. Gardner's undertaking proved ineffective because he let the matter dribble out at symposia or as paragraphs or footnotes in articles dealing with the general subject of pneumoconiosis." Related documents Saranac Laboratory, Proposal on Asbestosis…