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  1. 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…

  2. 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 …

  3. 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…

  4. Book · JM Knowledge Chronology · 1955

    Kenneth W. Smith, "Asbestosis," Chapter 2 of The Pneumoconioses (1955)

    …Among those workers who Dr. Smith has followed over the last 18 years and who have been exposed only to chrysotile fiber, there have been no more cases of lung cancer than among the general population.

  5. 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…

  6. 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…

  7. 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…

  8. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · February 10, 1950

    Kenneth W. Smith to R. S. Gardner on the Causes of Lung Cancer (1950)

    …and fumes are known to cause lung cancer," he wrote, but he knew of no definite hazard from that source in J-M's general operations. "The chief causes of lung cancer are dust and certain…

  9. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · July 17, 1958

    Ralph M. Barley, Herbert Ball and Dr. Kenneth Smith on Raybestos-Manhattan's Asbestosis and Lung Cancer Claims (1958)

    …wrote to Herbert Morton Ball, Johns-Manville's secretary and general attorney, that the company "has a great many cases of asbestosis" from its Manheim plant and now faced a claim (the Geiman case) linking asbestosis…

  10. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · December 30, 1957

    Dr. Kenneth Smith to Ivan Sabourin on the Condensed Industrial Hygiene Foundation Survey (1957)

    …stressing that "the hypothesis that asbestos miners do not have a higher mortality from lung cancer than does the general population cannot be rejected." He also agreed with Doctors Cartier and Braun that some workers "probably…

  11. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · April 18, 1957

    Dr. Kenneth W. Smith to A. J. Stenari on a Customer's Silicosis Question about Steam-Cured Asbestos Cement (1957)

    …such inquiries should be handled one at a time, and "it is the responsibility of the General Attorney to approve all written or oral representations to customers in the field of occupational health." In 1957, then…

  12. Article · JM Knowledge Chronology · August 1955

    Kenneth W. Smith, "Pulmonary Disability in Asbestos Workers" (1955)

    …It also states as a general finding that "no cases of asbestosis were found who had worked less than 20 years in the dust." In Johns-Manville's chronology Johns-Manville's own chronology of what…

  13. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · September 30, 1957

    Dr. Kenneth W. Smith to F. M. Stumpf of Columbia Acoustics and Fireproofing on Asbestos Hazards (1957)

    …Smith notes the general risk but represents that among 2,000 J-M workers handling in excess of 500,000 tons of asbestos annually: "We have developed no new cases of asbestosis for many years." Smith…

  14. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · November 5, 1959

    Dr. Kenneth W. Smith to H. G. Donovan on the Bonafide Plastics Company (1959)

    …The next month Smith told General Motors and Firestone that long inhalation of asbestos may cause lung changes (Smith to General Motors and Firestone). In Johns-Manville's chronology Johns-Manville's own chronology of what…