159 results for “General Electric”, page 1 of 8
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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 · 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 · 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 · January 1930
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, Report of a Dust Study of Raybestos-Manhattan's Charleston Plant (1930)
…study of dust counts at Raybestos plant in Charleston, SC done in January, 1930. used impinger and electric precipitator methods to collect dust. recommends extending use of exhaust, oiling, and humidifying systems wherever possible in plant…
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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 · 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 · January 24, 1955
Johns-Manville General Plant Engineering Department, Instructions for the Operation of Dust Collectors (1955)
…Manville's own chronology of what the company knew describes this document as follows: J-M's General plant Engineering Department issues an instruction manual for the operation and maintenance of dust collectors most commonly used…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · January 30, 1935
Raybestos-Manhattan's General Manager to Vandiver Brown on the Mellon Institute Group (1935)
…report is at Brown's memorandum on the Mellon Institute symposium. About this copy The letter is signed only "General Manager," with typist's initials that look like "MFJ-G." The writer may have been M…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · February 6, 1957
J-M Correspondence on Funding a Cardio-Pulmonary Laboratory at Middlesex General Hospital (1957)
A file of letters and memos from February to July 1957 on a request that J-M help pay for a cardio-pulmonary function laboratory at Middlesex General Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Dr. Joseph…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · December 21, 1959
Dr. Kenneth W. Smith to General Motors and Firestone on Asbestos Fiber (1959)
…knew describes this document as follows: Dr. K.W. Smith response (12/21/59) to General Motors' and Firestone Tire & Rubber Company's request for information regarding asbestos fiber. Dr. Smith states that it is a …
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · February 25, 1969
H. M. Jackson to Dr. John P. McCann of General Dynamics on Insulation Work at Groton (1969)
…Johns-Manville's chronology Johns-Manville's own chronology of what the company knew describes this document as follows: Letter from Jackson to McCann of General Dynamics Corporation following a trip made by Jackson and Dr…
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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 · May 3, 1962
F. H. Deeg to F. E. Henderson at Lompoc on a Lung Injury Claim and the Warning Label (1962)
What it shows A claim under the general liability policy, rather than workers' compensation, points to someone outside J-M's own workforce, and the request shows that by 1962 the company was using a warning…
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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 · 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 · April 27, 1959
Arthur L. Fisk Jr. to Guy H. Haskins Jr. on Rock Wool Insulation (1959)
A two-page letter of April 27, 1959, from Arthur L. Fisk, Jr., Johns-Manville's assistant general attorney, to Guy H. Haskins, Jr., of the law firm Skeffington, Haskins & Skeffington in Bloomfield, New Jersey, who…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · May 2, 1955
C. H. Stevens to W. C. Seeds on Dust Collection in the Manville A Building (1955)
…memo of May 2, 1955, from C. H. Stevens of J-M's General Plant Engineering Department at Manville to W. C. Seeds at division headquarters, with a schedule of dust counts. Seeds had assigned Stevens…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · November 30, 1961
C. L. Sheckler to All Industrial Relations Managers on Union Requests for Dust Count Records (1961)
…no constructive purpose, could be readily misinterpreted, and adversely utilized." Recommends that if it becomes essential to discuss such information, the discussion should be kept as general as possible and specific atmospheric, hygiene, medical, workmen's…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · May 13, 1964
C. L. Sheckler to C. H. Grote and L. Hemerda on Trying Manville Occupational Disease Claims (1964)
A two-page confidential memo of May 13, 1964, from C. L. Sheckler at Johns-Manville's General Headquarters to C. H. Grote and L. Hemerda at the Manville, New Jersey, plant about a wave of…