169 results for “General Electric”, page 3 of 9
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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 · 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 · March 3, 1950
J. P. Woodard to Kenneth W. Smith on Dr. Lanza's View of Merewether's Paper (1950)
A one-page confidential memo of March 3, 1950, from J. P. Woodard at J-M's General Headquarters to Dr. Kenneth W. Smith, headed "Asbestosis: Dr. Merewether." The copy is mostly illegible. Woodard reported that…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · July 1, 1970
M. W. Burleson's Notice to the Industrial Insulations Division on Health Hazard Caution Labels (1970)
…W. Burleson, general manager of Johns-Manville's Industrial Insulations Division, with two attached sheets. It orders caution warnings on "certain packages and products" sold by the division that contain asbestos fiber and free crystalline silica…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · October 27, 1936
Raybestos-Manhattan's North Charleston Manager to Sumner Simpson on a State Health Board Dust Study (1936)
…letter of October 27, 1936, from E. H. Jefferds, general manager of Raybestos-Manhattan's General Asbestos & Rubber Division in North Charleston, South Carolina, to Sumner Simpson, the company's president. A Dr. Wilson of the…
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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 · July 27, 1976
W. B. Reitze, OSHA Letter No. 34 on the 2-Fiber Asbestos Standard (1976)
In Johns-Manville's chronology Johns-Manville's own chronology of what the company knew describes this document as follows: W.B. Reitze memorandum to Senior Officers and Division General Managers, 7/27/76, stating that…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · April 16, 1979
W. B. Reitze to Plant Managers on Posting Industrial Hygiene Survey Reports (1979)
…1979, from W. B. Reitze of Johns-Manville's headquarters health and safety staff to plant, production and general managers, copied to Dr. Paul Kotin. "Once again, it has been brought to my attention that certain…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · March 22, 1968
Warren Max Deutsch to K. V. Lindell on the Caution Statement for Chrysotile Fiber Bags (1968)
A two-page memo of March 22, 1968, from Warren Max Deutsch at Johns-Manville's general headquarters to K. V. Lindell of the Asbestos Fibre Division, copied to C. L. Sheckler and H. M. Jackson…
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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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Article · JM Knowledge Chronology · June 1958
Daniel C. Braun and T. David Truan, An Epidemiological Study of Lung Cancer in Asbestos Miners (1958)
…that they "do not have a significantly higher death rate from lung cancer than do comparable segments of the general population," and that the lung cancer rate did not rise with length or degree of exposure…
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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.