184 results for “General Electric”, page 5 of 10
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Medical study · Medical research · 1953
Asbestosis And Bronchogenic Carcinoma: Report Of One Autopsied Case And Review Of The Available Literature
…reviewed published literature on asbestos exposure and lung cancer. The patient was a 41-year-old asbestos mill worker admitted to Massachusetts General Hospital in April 1951. He had worked about twelve years in a mill…
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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 · Motley 1000 · May 28, 1954
O. H. Cilley to W. C. Hemeon on Dust Control and a Lower Dust Limit (1954)
…s index Johns-Manville's legal department indexed the Motley 1,000 in 1984. Its index describes this document as follows: O.H. Cilley (General Manager, R-M U.S. Asbestos Division) letter to W.C…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · June 8, 1954
W. C. Taylor of Owens-Illinois on Asbestos in Kaylo and Competing Calcium Silicate Insulations (1954)
…Johns-Manville's legal department indexed the Motley 1,000 in 1984. Its index describes this document as follows: W.C. Taylor (Chief Chemistry Section, General Research Division, OCF) memo to B.F. Truman, et al…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · January 1958
Union Carbide Chemicals Company, Design and Construction Department, Specifications for Thermal Insulation Material and Application, South Charleston, West Virginia (1958)
…for purchasing and applying thermal insulation. It contains a foreword with definitions, general specifications, and individual specifications by material type (for example 10-B and 10-H for cellular glass, 37-H for prefabricated insulated pipe…
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Company document · Asbestos Textile Institute documents · 1952
Asbestos Textile Institute Abstracts, Vol. 1, No. 1 (1952)
…a two-page list of cited 1951-52 journal articles grouped under Air Hygiene, Technical and General. It includes short summaries of articles on sonic agglomeration of dust and on the heat-insulating performance of asbestos…
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Company document · Asbestos Textile Institute documents · November 29, 1954
Asbestos Textile Institute Treasurer's Report by J. G. Schoepf, November 29, 1954 (1954)
…Textile Institute giving fund balances from October 1 to November 29, 1954. It lists receipts, transfers and disbursements for the Fellowship, General and Petty Cash funds, and shows a balance on hand of $14,351.75.
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Company document · Asbestos Textile Institute documents · June 10, 1953
Asbestos Textile Institute Board of Governors Minutes, June 10, 1953 (1953)
…meeting held at the Warwick Hotel, Philadelphia. The Board dealt with refurbishing visual aid displays, splitting Associate member dues between the General and Fellowship Funds, the September 1953 General meeting, committee meeting expenses, and associate membership.
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Company document · Asbestos Textile Institute documents · December 5, 1951
Asbestos Textile Institute Board of Governors Minutes, December 5, 1951 (1951)
…on December 5, 1951. The board recommended a 1952 budget of $18,100 for the General and Fellowship Funds, a constitutional amendment creating associate membership for foreign textile makers and asbestos fiber miners, a 1952 meeting…
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Company document · Asbestos Textile Institute documents · March 11, 1953
Asbestos Textile Institute Board of Governors Meeting Minutes, March 11, 1953 (1953)
…of a meeting of the Asbestos Textile Institute Board of Governors at the Essex House, New York, held the day before a General meeting. The Board discussed the Abradoflex patent application bill, an associate membership application…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1958
Rheumatoid lung changes associated with asbestosis
…of rheumatoid lung disease. The patient was a 49-year-old man with rheumatoid arthritis who had worked as a general labourer in an asbestos factory from January 1952 to January 1956. The article does not…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1951
Asbestosis associated with bronchogenic carcinoma
…cancer and asbestosis, and reviewed earlier published reports of lung cancer occurring together with asbestosis. The patient was a 40-year-old white man admitted to Queens General Hospital with cough, fever and weakness. He had…
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Patent · March 19, 1957
Thermal insulation (US Patent 2,786,004, 1957)
…on March 19, 1957, filed August 7, 1953. The patent's description opens (from the scanned text): This invention relates to thermal insulation of general utility suitable for use in buildings, refrigerators, vehicles, boxes and the…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1952
Medical Progress - Occupational Medicine - Hardy
…cases of asbestosis with a 13.2 per cent incidence of pulmonary cancer, compared with 1.0 per cent in the general adult population. Two case reports were described: a shipyard worker using asbestos who died…