6 results for “General Electric”
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Company document · JM Document Review · September 8, 1970
S. Speil, Memo for File on a Visit to General Motors' Inland Division About Brake Lining Wear Dust (1970)
…present "could probably be convinced that no problem exists by a few animal experiments" with calcined asbestos and brake lining wear material. The memo also notes that General Motors was considering funding work at Mt. Sinai…
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Company document · JM Document Review · January 31, 1983
Lois Gaul's Johns-Manville Memo on the Rhode Island Medical Journal (1983)
…1983, from Lois Gaul to D. H. Markusson, J-M's associate general counsel, with copies to K. Richman and B. Diemer, reporting on her review of the Rhode Island Medical Journal from 1938 to 1969…
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Company document · JM Document Review · May 19, 1932
Physical Examinations of Employees at the Manville Factory (1932)
…The report explains how cases were labeled. Positive cases with an earlier job in a dusty trade "were called 'Pneumoconiosis'" (the general term for dust disease of the lungs), and those with no earlier dust history…
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Company document · JM Document Review · September 27, 1984
Lois Gaul's Manville Memo on Chenoweth and Machle's Industrial Hygiene Handbook (1984)
…its chapter on dust diseases is mostly about silicosis, with "only a brief mention of asbestosis," which she quoted: asbestosis is caused by breathing fine asbestos dust, a "general lung fibrosis follows and disability is marked."
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Company document · JM Document Review · September 27, 1984
Lois Gaul's Manville Memo on Collis and Greenwood's The Health of the Industrial Worker (1984)
…Gaul found its chapter on cancer "very general," and its section on dust and lung disease made "no mention of asbestos." She quoted the book's statement that dust phthisis "is only associated with exposure to…
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Company document · JM Document Review · November 11, 1986
Lois Gaul's Manville Memo on H. E. Mock's Industrial Medicine and Surgery (1986)
…of Northern Colorado. She reports that "there is no mention of asbestos hazards," though there is "some discussion of dust in general," a chapter on industrial hygiene and production during World War I, and a bibliography…