29 results for “General Electric”, page 1 of 2
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · August 2, 1946
Johns-Manville Appropriation for a New X-Ray Unit at the Manville Dispensary (1946)
…New Jersey, factory with a new General Electric unit. A report by the Industrial Engineering Department said the old machine could not take clear chest pictures of "heavy or thick chested people," who had to be…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · September 30, 1949
J-M General Engineering Report on the Waukegan Transite Pipe Dust System (1949)
…The document is the General Engineering Department's report of that date proposing the project; it does not show that the appropriation was approved. Related documents Annual Report of the Surgeon General of the U.S…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · June 19, 1946
Asbestos Textile Institute Minutes on Dr. Vestal's Health Program (1946)
What it shows The general meeting also heard a Dust Control Committee report with "numerous findings and recommendations," including damp weaving to hold down dust, which the members discussed without deciding, after hearing the sales view…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · April 7, 1949
Asbestos Textile Institute Minutes on the Conklin Cancer Article (1949)
Three pages from the minutes of the Asbestos Textile Institute's general meeting of April 7, 1949, at the Bismarck Hotel in Chicago, attended by representatives of Johns-Manville (S. V. Dillon), Raybestos-Manhattan, Keasbey & Mattison…
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Article · JM Knowledge Chronology · 1942
Herbert B. Holleb and Alfred Angrist, "Bronchogenic Carcinoma in Association with Pulmonary Asbestosis" (1942)
A nine-page article in the American Journal of Pathology (volume 18, 1942) by two pathologists at Queens General Hospital in Jamaica, New York, reporting two men who died of lung cancer and were found at…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · June 29, 1945
A. R. Fisher to J. P. Woodard on Keeping Dr. Stevenson as a Consultant for Asbestosis Cases (1945)
A short internal memo of June 29, 1945, from A. R. Fisher at Johns-Manville's general headquarters to J. P. Woodard, headed "Dr. Stevenson - Asbestos Retirement," with a copy to J. P. Syme. Fisher writes…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · August 14, 1945
Canadian Johns-Manville Memo to Headquarters on Stopping Return of Foreign Fibre Jute Bags (1945)
…from Asbestos, Quebec, to J-M's general headquarters, headed "Jute Bags (Foreign Fibre Containers)." The writer forwards a report by Mr. Foley (not in this file) showing that "the situation from a labour and health…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · January 26, 1945
F. G. Lippert to Kenneth Smith on Cleaning Bags of South African Blue Fibre (1945)
…1945, from F. G. Lippert at Johns-Manville's general headquarters to Dr. Kenneth Smith at Asbestos, Quebec, answering Smith's December 19 letter about men having trouble breathing while cleaning bags of "Blue or C…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · August 9, 1949
George K. Foster to A. R. Fisher on a Union Dust Clause in Quebec Arbitration (1949)
…appears to read August 9, 1949, and the arbitration it describes fits the period after the 1949 strike. The memo does not name the Jeffrey Mine; it refers to the companies' contract under arbitration in general.
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · August 18, 1949
J. P. Woodard to C. M. McGaw on Approval of Dust Control at Asbestos, Quebec (1949)
…personal and confidential one-page note of August 18, 1949, from J. P. Woodard at J-M's General Headquarters to C. M. McGaw at Asbestos, Quebec. Woodard wrote that approval had been granted the day…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · April 15, 1949
J. P. Woodard to George K. Foster on Dr. Smith's Comments on the Saranac Report (1949)
…April 15, 1949, from J. P. Woodard at J-M's General Headquarters to George K. Foster, on Dr. Ken Smith's summary and comments on the Saranac report "Asbestos Pneumoconiosis" (Smith to Foster). Woodard thought…
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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 · 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 · 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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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · January 3, 1941
Bowers & Rinehart and Vandiver Brown on Joseph Kopicki's Silicosis Claim (1941)
…J-M wished to settle without litigation. On January 6 Vandiver Brown, J-M's general attorney, replied that he had asked the Manville plant for "complete information concerning Mr. Kopicki as revealed by our records…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · July 10, 1948
Canadian Johns-Manville Mine Division Industrial Hygiene Committee Minutes on Mill Dust Control (1948)
…Hygiene Meeting, Mine Division 7/10/48. "Failure of General Headquarters to approve this appropriation is difficult to understand, in view of the fact that it would reduce dust within the mill about 50%. The Industrial…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · June 14, 1943
Elliott DeForest of the Northwest Magnesia Association to Washington State on Deleting Its Asbestosis Rule (1943)
…of Labor, 6/14/43, requesting on behalf of the Magnesia Association that proposed General Safety Standard 49, Article A-5, re asbestosis "be deleted." DeForest indicates that in the 40-year experience of the Association…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · April 17, 1940
Johns-Manville Executive Bulletin on Respirator and Goggle Prices (1940)
…the company knew describes this document as follows: Executive bulletin dated 4/17/40 from D. Lyons (J-M general headquarters) of 2/1/40, listing costs for respirators and goggles from various vendors in Pittsburgh…