6 results for “General Electric”
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · June 4, 1965
Asbestos Textile Institute General Meeting Minutes at Thetford Mines, with Dr. Kenneth Smith's Remarks (1965)
What it shows Smith also told the meeting that the health of J-M's long-time employees compared favorably with industry in general, pointing to the growing membership of the company's 25-year club…
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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 · 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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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 · October 6, 1954
Asbestos Textile Institute Air Hygiene Committee and Board of Governors Minutes on Insurance Forms, Autopsies and Lung Cancer (1954)
…representative of Asten-Hill advocates calling asbestosis "pulmonary fibrosis" on insurance claim forms and answering questions from insurers re occupational nexus in the negative, so that indemnity can be obtained from general insurance companies. K.W…