433 results for “Owens-Corning Fiberglas”, page 1 of 22
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · November 21, 1944
Physician's Letter to Edward Ames of Owens-Corning Fiberglas on a Pipe Coverer with Asbestosis (1944)
…as follows: An unsigned letter to E.C. Ames (P.R. Manager, Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corporation) on 11/21/44 discusses A. Bumgardner, expressing the view that Mr. Bumgardner's condition is due to exposure to…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · 1944
Unsigned Draft Letter to Edward C. Ames of Owens-Corning Fiberglas on Albert Baumgardner (1944)
…of what the company knew describes this document as follows: In an unsigned letter from a physician to E.C. Ames (P.R. Manager, Owens-Corning), Albert Baumgardner, a 55-year old insulation worker, is discussed…
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Company document · JM Document Review · 1941
Unsigned Draft Letter to Edward C. Ames of Owens-Corning Fiberglas on Fiberglas and a Worker's Lung Condition (1941)
…page seems to be a text prepared for someone else to sign and send to Owens-Corning Fiberglas. It shows a fiberglass maker's public relations office making its case that glass fiber was safe by…
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Patent · February 4, 1941
Combined Asbestos and Glass Fibre Yarns (US Patent 2,230,271, 1941)
…1938. It was assigned to Owens Corning Fiberglas Corp. The patent's description opens (from the scanned text): The present invention relates to methods of combining asbestos and glass fibers for use in yarns, interwoven cloth…
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Magazine · The Asbestos Worker · 1941
The Asbestos Worker, 1941
…Apr. 1941 April 1941 (Vol. 11, No. 15) Report of the General President (Owens-Corning Fiberglas conference on Local 26 complaint; Plasterers; General Asbestos & Insulation Company and Carey representatives at Evansville) Apr. 1941 April 1941 (Vol…
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Magazine · The Asbestos Worker · 1943
The Asbestos Worker, 1943
…1943 (Vol. 12, No. 3) Editorial page (masthead; Laco Roofing and Asbestos Company declared unfair; Corning Glass Company, an entity of Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation, and Local 26) Apr. 1943 April 1943 (Vol. 12, No. 3…
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Magazine · The Asbestos Worker · 1946
The Asbestos Worker, 1946
…of the General President (Mullaney: Central States, New York State, Middle Atlantic and Southwest conferences; visits from J-M and Owens-Corning Fiberglas officials; Local 1-B strike against the J-M shop, St. Louis) Oct…
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Magazine · The Asbestos Worker · 1945
The Asbestos Worker, 1945
…Oct. 1945 October 1945 (Vol. 12, No. 13) Materials & Manufacturers Special Session of the General Executive Board (Owens-Illinois Glass and Owens-Corning Fiberglas; glass insulation premiums; concluded on page 16) Jan. 1945 January 1945 (Vol…
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Magazine · The Asbestos Worker · 1947
The Asbestos Worker, 1947
…Alpine, Veto Day in New York, Birch-Johnson-Lytle and Alaska recruiting, Local 27 strike, Owens-Corning Fiberglas Kansas City plant, Taft-Hartley Law) July 1947 July 1947 (Vol. 12, No. 20) Charters issued (Locals 98…
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Magazine · The Asbestos Worker · 1942
The Asbestos Worker, 1942
…1942, p. 1) Dust, Disease & Safety Glass Insulation To Date (continued): Local Union premiums; Massachusetts Division of Occupational Hygiene report on Fiberglas hazards Jan. 1942 January 1942 (Vol. 11, No. 18) Minutes of the California State…
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Company document · 1943
Saranac Laboratory Letter to Owens-Illinois on Synthetic Insulation (1943)
…was introduced. The animal studies that followed confirmed in 1948 that Kaylo dust caused asbestosis. Owens-Illinois kept making and selling Kaylo without warnings, and Owens-Corning, which bought the product line in 1958, sold it…
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Magazine · The Asbestos Worker · 1944
The Asbestos Worker, 1944
…No. 7) Report of the General President, Washington, April 3, 1944 (Owens-Corning Buffalo shop; glass insulation on a Navy-held building at Rochester; Rhode Island Covering Company and shipyard work) Apr. 1944 April 1944 (Vol…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · December 14, 1948
W. G. Hazard of Owens-Illinois to the Industrial Hygiene Foundation on Studying Kaylo Dust (1948)
…grinding. The letter came four weeks after Saranac's Arthur Vorwald had told Owens-Illinois that Kaylo produced asbestosis in animals and that this conclusion was "final rather than tentative" (Vorwald's letter of November 16…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · November 16, 1948
Arthur J. Vorwald to Owens-Illinois on Kaylo Causing Asbestosis in Animals (1948)
What it shows To help Owens-Illinois plan a safety program, the report also drew on Saranac's unpublished asbestos experiments, which it said had been reported "to certain other supporting companies, but not as yet…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · November 21, 1944
U. E. Bowes to Leroy U. Gardner Asking for a Hazard Study of the Berlin Plant Material (1944)
…of November 21, 1944, from U. E. Bowes, director of research at the Owens-Illinois Glass Company, to Dr. Leroy U. Gardner of the Saranac Laboratory, after a meeting in Pittsburgh with Gardner and A. C…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · February 12, 1943
U. E. Bowes to Leroy U. Gardner Asking Saranac to Test a Hydrous Calcium Silicate (1943)
What it shows This is where the Owens-Illinois and Saranac correspondence about Kaylo begins. From the start, Bowes asked about the people who would install the product as well as those who made it. Gardner…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · September 21, 1948
W. G. Hazard to Arthur J. Vorwald on the Composition of Kaylo (1948)
What it shows The letter shows Owens-Illinois describing to Saranac the asbestos content of the dust being tested, two months before Vorwald reported that the animals had developed asbestosis (his letter of November 16, 1948…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · November 10, 1949
W. G. Hazard to J. F. McMahon Sending Kaylo Boxcar Dust for Analysis (1949)
…two-page letter of November 10, 1949, from W. G. Hazard of the Owens-Illinois Glass Company to J. F. McMahon, managing director of the Industrial Hygiene Foundation of America. Hazard explained that the Saranac Laboratory…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · November 16, 1948
Arthur J. Vorwald to U. E. Bowes on Kaylo Producing Asbestosis in Animals (1948)
…The same letter with its report is already published from Johns-Manville's chronology as Vorwald to Owens-Illinois on Kaylo causing asbestosis. In Johns-Manville's index Johns-Manville's legal department indexed the Motley…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · May 31, 1944
Leroy U. Gardner to U. E. Bowes on Animal Tests of Hydrous Calcium Silicate (1944)
What it shows Gardner left it to Owens-Illinois to judge whether the samples matched the dust in the air of its plant, since the company was "in a better position than we to know." The…