30 results for “General Electric”, page 1 of 2
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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 · 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 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 · 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 · 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 · December 30, 1958
H. M. Jackson to All Industrial Relations Managers on Threshold Limit Values for Mixed Dusts (1958)
A one-page memo of December 30, 1958, from Johns-Manville's general headquarters to all industrial relations managers, by H. M. Jackson, manager of J-M's industrial health program, on applying the threshold limit…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · April 6, 1954
H. M. Jackson to G. S. Smith on J-M's Own Threshold Limit for Asbestos (1954)
…TLV). In Johns-Manville's chronology Johns-Manville's own chronology of what the company knew describes this document as follows: Jackson Memorandum to G.S. Smith, General Engineering Manville, 4/6/54, Re: Threshold Limits…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · September 14, 1953
H. M. Jackson to O. B. Westmont on the Lompoc Housekeeping Procedures Manual (1953)
A short memo of September 14, 1953, from Johns-Manville's General Headquarters to O. B. Westmont at the Lompoc, California, diatomaceous earth plant, answering his letter of August 20 about the plant's new housekeeping…
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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 · 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 · June 23, 1952
Arthur L. Fisk Jr. and Glenn A. Coughlan of Idaho on a Rock Wool Lung Fibrosis Claim (1952)
…an assistant attorney general of Idaho handling a claim against the State Insurance Fund for total disability "allegedly arising from fibrosis of the lungs due to breathing rock wool dust." Fisk enclosed a 1935 article by…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · April 1, 1952
Arthur L. Fisk Jr. to the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway on Skin Irritation from Stonefelt Rock Wool (1952)
…s Legal Department to E. M. Hudgins, general claim agent of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company in Richmond, Virginia, about complaints of rashes from J-M's Type A Stonefelt insulation, which Fisk describes as…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · August 3, 1954
Dr. David T. DuBow and Dr. Kenneth W. Smith on Warning Fibrocel Installers About Perlite (1954)
…DuBow tells Dr. Smith that it has been suggested that "the general sales force be alerted with respect to the potential health hazards in the use of expanded perlite." Dr. Smith responds (8/16/54) that…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · March 26, 1959
Dr. David T. DuBow to M. F. Naylor on Releasing Employees' X-Rays to Their Doctors (1959)
…L. Sheckler about how the Medical Department should answer treating physicians who asked to see employees' X-rays. DuBow put the question to the medical departments of six companies: General Motors at Linden, New Jersey, Squibb…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · January 25, 1954
Dr. Kenneth W. Smith to A. J. Maahs on a Warning for Ring-Tite Lubricant (1954)
…lubricant, used with J-M's Ring-Tite pipe coupling. "In general," Smith wrote, "when a toxic hazard associated with one of our products has been established all employees working in the fields of research, production…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · December 18, 1956
H. M. Jackson to Schilling on the Travelers Dust Survey of the Manville Pipe Department (1956)
…to Schilling at the Manville plant on a survey of the pipe department in "P" Building made by the Travelers insurance company's laboratory. Jackson writes that the counts "in general" showed adequate control, with exceptions…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · April 29, 1953
Johns-Manville Board of Directors Minutes on the Celite Dust Abatement Program at Lompoc (1953)
…California. Arthur Elsenbast, vice president and general manager of the Celite Division, told the board that before the early 1930s neither industry nor medicine knew that diatomaceous earth dust was a hazard, and that over $1…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · March 18, 1958
Johns-Manville Memos on a Caution Label for Marinite (1958)
…Herbert Morton Ball, J-M's secretary and general attorney, warned that a dusty situation at the Newport News Shipbuilding yard "may result in extensive legal liability" and urged a label on the back of the…