126 results for “General Electric”, page 4 of 7
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Company document · Sumner Simpson Papers · January 16, 1940
Sumner Simpson to Vandiver Brown Thanking Him for Dr. Lanza's Comments (1940)
…president of Raybestos-Manhattan, to Vandiver Brown, Johns-Manville's general attorney, acknowledging his letter of the 12th and thanking him "for sending me a copy of Dr. Lanza's comments on the results thus far…
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Company document · Sumner Simpson Papers · January 17, 1940
Vandiver Brown to Dr. Leroy U. Gardner Authorizing the Experiments for 1940 (1940)
A one-page letter of January 17, 1940, from Vandiver Brown, Johns-Manville's general attorney, to Dr. Leroy U. Gardner of the Saranac Laboratories, with a copy to Sumner Simpson of Raybestos-Manhattan. Brown wrote…
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Company document · Sumner Simpson Papers · January 25, 1940
Vandiver Brown to George S. Fabel on Southern Asbestos Staying in the Saranac Experiments (1940)
A one-page letter of January 25, 1940, from Vandiver Brown, Johns-Manville's general attorney, to George S. Fabel, president of the Southern Asbestos Company of Charlotte, North Carolina, with a blind copy to Sumner…
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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 · Sumner Simpson Papers · January 15, 1940
Vandiver Brown to Sumner Simpson on Two Sponsors Leaving the Saranac Experiments (1940)
A one-page letter of January 15, 1940, from Vandiver Brown, Johns-Manville's general attorney, to Sumner Simpson, president of Raybestos-Manhattan. Brown reported that all the sponsors of Dr. Gardner's experiments had answered…
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Company document · Sumner Simpson Papers · January 12, 1940
Vandiver Brown to Sumner Simpson with Dr. Lanza's Comments on Gardner's Interim Report (1940)
A one-page letter of January 12, 1940, from Vandiver Brown, Johns-Manville's general attorney, to Sumner Simpson, president of Raybestos-Manhattan, "supplementing Dr. Gardner's latest report," with a copy of a letter of…
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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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Patent · November 17, 1942
Brake Lining Wear Indicator (US Patent 2,302,451, 1942)
…17, 1942, filed January 6, 1941. It was assigned to General Motors Corp. The patent's description opens (from the scanned text): This invention relates to an indicator to show the extent of brake lining wear.
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Patent · November 12, 1940
Friction Clutch Facing (US Patent 2,221,400, 1940)
…November 12, 1940, filed February 1, 1940. It was assigned to General Motors Corp. The patent's description opens (from the scanned text): This invention relates 'to friction material and to a process for its manufacture.
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Patent · June 26, 1945
Friction Linings (US Patent 2,379,166, 1945)
…1943. It was assigned to General Motors Corp. The patent's description opens (from the scanned text): This invention relates to a method of mixing and curing moldable thermosetting compounds, especially such as contain a substantial…
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Patent · February 13, 1945
Insulating Lining for Conduits (US Patent 2,369,204, 1945)
…Baker received US Patent No. 2,369,204 on February 13, 1945. The patent's description opens (from the scanned text): This invention relates in general to conduits, vessels and the like, through which fluids are…
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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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Medical study · Medical research · 1948
Asbestosis: Vi. Analysis Of Forty Necropsied Cases
…fibrosis resembling silicosis. Three of the forty had lung cancer (7.5 per cent), versus 1 per cent in 2,683 general necropsies over ten years. All three had medium to advanced asbestosis. The authors concluded…
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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 · Sumner Simpson Papers · April 8, 1940
Dr. Albert S. Gray of the Connecticut Department of Health to Raybestos-Manhattan on the Stratford Plant Survey (1940)
…for the attention of R. B. Davis, general manager, after a survey of several plant operations. Gray asked for ventilation of the hood over the feed hopper on the trim pulverizer, where "considerable asbestos dust is…
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Company document · Sumner Simpson Papers · January 9, 1940
Dr. Albert S. Gray to R. B. Davis on Visiting the Stratford Plant in February (1940)
…to R. B. Davis, general manager of the Raybestos Division of Raybestos-Manhattan in Bridgeport. Answering Davis's letter of January 3, Gray wrote that since Davis would be away for three weeks, he would get…
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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…