433 results for “Owens-Illinois”, page 1 of 22
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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 · 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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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What it shows To help Owens-Illinois plan a safety program, the report also drew on Saranac's unpublished asbestos experiments, which it said had been reported "to certain other supporting companies, but not as yet…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 · 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 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 · 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…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · March 12, 1943
Leroy U. Gardner to U. E. Bowes on Asbestos in the Synthetic Insulation (1943)
What it shows The letter shows that the asbestos in the material that became Kaylo was known to Owens-Illinois and to Saranac in 1943, before any animal tests, and that Saranac's first reaction was…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · November 27, 1944
Leroy U. Gardner to U. E. Bowes Proposing an Inhalation Study of K-Lo Dust (1944)
…Gardner wrote that he hoped the results would be such that Owens-Illinois "might wish to have us publish our findings but it is understood that nothing will be published without your authorization." He also proposed…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · October 30, 1948
Saranac Laboratory, Interim Report on the Biological Activity of Kaylo Dust (1948)
A nine-page interim report of October 30, 1948, to the Owens-Illinois Glass Company, submitted by Dr. Arthur J. Vorwald of the Saranac Laboratory with Philip C. Pratt, Thomas M. Durkan and Anthony B. Delahant…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · February 23, 1943
Leroy U. Gardner to U. E. Bowes on First Tests of the Calcium Silicate Samples (1943)
…to U. E. Bowes of the Owens-Illinois Glass Company, written the day the calcium silicate samples arrived. Gardner said he "would suspect that they might be a source of respiratory difficulty" but needed more information…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · March 21, 1949
Theodore F. Hatch to W. G. Hazard Returning the Saranac Report on Kaylo (1949)
…used in the animal tests with the dust in the plant, is the study Owens-Illinois later asked the foundation to make (Hazard's letter of November 10, 1949). In Johns-Manville's index Johns-Manville…
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Patent · May 10, 1949
Heat Insulating Materials (US Patent 2,469,379, 1949)
…It was assigned to Owens Illinois Glass Co. The patent's description opens (from the scanned text): This invention relates to a new type of heat insulating materials and to improved compositions and methods for their…
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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
…Apr. 1947 April 1947 (Vol. 12, No. 19) Workmen's Compensation to Be Increased in Illinois (awards under the compensation and occupational diseases acts); The Asbestos Worker masthead July 1947 July 1947 (Vol. 12, No. 20…
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Magazine · Asbestos Magazine · 1943
Asbestos Magazine, 1943
…war security reasons. July 1943 Aug. 1943 4-10 The "Big Inch" pipeline from Texas to Illinois to the Atlantic Coast will carry 300,000 barrels of oil a day. It cost $95 million and is…
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Magazine · Industrial Hygiene Digest · 1941
Industrial Hygiene Digest, 1941
…April 1941) Aug. 1941 August 1941 (Vol. 5, No. 8) Industrial hygiene in a public health program (M. H. Kronenberg, Illinois Med. Jour., March 1941) Aug. 1941 August 1941 (Vol. 5, No. 8) Safety (J. W…
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Magazine · Industrial Hygiene Digest · 1942
Industrial Hygiene Digest, 1942
…February 1942) Mar. 1942 March 1942 (Vol. 6, No. 3) Industrial hygiene all 24 hours (Thomas Parran, Illinois Health Messenger, March 1942) Mar. 1942 March 1942 (Vol. 6, No. 3) Dark adaptation and miners' nystagmus (J…