289 results for “General Electric”, page 14 of 15
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Medical study · Medical research · 1976
The reliability of measures of amphibole fiber concentration in water
…However, the relative variability among laboratories was reasonably uniform. There was general agreement that water from some sites was consistently high in concentrations of amphibole fibers, while other sites were consistently low. We conclude that comparisons…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1976
Predictions of mortality from mesothelial tumours in asbestos factory workers
…mortality and somewhat higher for women. The highest number of deaths from mesothelial tumours will occur during the 1980s, thereafter the numbers will decline because of the decreasing size of the cohort resulting from general mortality.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1970
Aetiology of pleural plaques
…previous disease was pleurisy with effusion, occurring in 9·7%. The general condition of those affected was excellent; only 8% were aware of the fact that pleural lesions were present. The disorder was found mainly in…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1978
Epidemiology of head and neck cancer
…as asbestos, radon, nickel and arsenic--which have strong carcinogenic effects, most of these have only a small impact on the general population because exposure is limited, usually to small occupational groups. Two prevalent exposures, however…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1973
Asbestos in the work place and the community
…of mesothelial tumours in neighbourhoods of a source of asbestos dust, and the presence of asbestos bodies or calcified asbestos pleural plaques in the general population. Conditions giving rise to neighbourhood mesothelial tumours may not now…
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Company document · JM Litigation Chronology · April 20, 1979
Johns-Manville Form S-7 Registration Statement for $100 Million in Notes: Litigation (1979)
…employees, and that punitive damages would not be material. G. Earl Parker, J-M's vice president and general counsel, is named on the cover as agent for service, with a copy to William D. Tucker…
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Court case · Maryland Court of Appeals · November 21, 1978 · in the opinion
Harig v. Johns-Manville Products (1978)
…coupled with the peculiarly harsh consequences of adherence to the general rule of accrual from the date of the "wrong," prompted our predecessors to recognize the discovery principle in determining when a cause of action accrues…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · September 10, 1973 · in the opinion
Borel v. Fibreboard Paper Products Corporation (1973)
…of the same danger. This inconsistency in the jury's verdicts, although puzzling, need not detain us. It has long been the rule that consistency in general verdicts is not required. Dunn v. United States, 1932…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · January 12, 1979
C. G. Linke to John A. McKinney on J-M's Asbestos Positions and the Facts (1979)
…acting like the Wronged Woman and begin communicating and demonstrating what I believe to be your genuine concern for the general well-being and health of our own and our customers' employees and the general public."
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Company document · Motley 1000 · September 29, 1975
H. B. Rhodes of Union Carbide on Asbestos Papers at the International Congress on Occupational Health (1975)
…particulate materials such as silica or talc. The Congress was attended by over 2,000 delegates. Rhodes reports that, in general, the Congress produced only one bombshell in the asbestos area, a paper by Dr. M…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · June 6, 1975
J. G. Cole's Memos to R. E. Sampson Transcribing CBC Reports on the Advocate Mine (1975)
…local medical school. Interviewees discussed the extremely dusty conditions at the mines and surrounding area, J-M non-disclosure practices regarding x-ray results and asbestos hazards in general, non-enforcement of respirator usage, and inadequate…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · January 26, 1973
Robert W. Whitt to C. B. Allen on Waukegan Transite Pipe Dust Stations Over the TLV (1973)
…are these government shipments, too?" Related documents J-M General Engineering Report on the Waukegan Transite Pipe Dust System (1949) L. Seppala to Boyd Mulder on the Waukegan Medical Schedule (1960) Arthur J. Vorwald to J…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · September 12, 1975
Transcript of Dr. Kenneth W. Smith's Taped Message to Kent Wise on Who Decided What J-M Employees Were Told (1975)
…might have been seen. He was not considered competent by non-medical people in general headquarters at the New York office." This document was offered as an exhibit in the trial of Speake v. J-M.
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Magazine · J-M News Pictorial · 1971
J-M News Pictorial, 1971
…Announcements Mar. 1971 March 1971 Assignments: J. R. M. Hutcheson General Manager of the Asbestos Fibre Division Apr. 1971 April–May 1971 Stepping up Apr. 1971 April–May 1971 Newsmakers Apr. 1971 April–May 1971 Announcements;…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1974
Mesothelioma register 1967-68
…but, in general, mesothelioma occured at an earlier age than carcinoma of bronchus and lung' or all malignant tumours' in the Registrar General's statistical mortality tables. Concomitant asbestosis and the finding of asbestos bodies or…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1970
Practical steps towards the prevention of bronchial carcinoma
…the occupational agent. The author concluded that prevention lay primarily in reducing cigarette smoking. He proposed banning general tobacco advertising except at the point of sale, and a tax differential favouring pipes and cigars. For asbestos…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
Pleural plaques and neoplasia in Finland
…The authors suggested that slight asbestos exposure causes plaques while heavy exposure leads to plaques and lung fibrosis. They considered the results in accord with the general view of the association between plaques and asbestos exposure.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
Significance of aspect ration in regulation of asbestos fiber exposure
…use the term asbestos only when the source or megascopic characteristics are known; otherwise describe fibers as indistinguishable from asbestos or use general mineralogical terms. (3) study the chemical, physical and crystallographic properties of asbestiform fibers…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · May 29, 1975
Dr. Philip E. Enterline to J. C. Gilson and John H. Marsh on a Mortality Study at Raybestos-Manhattan's Stratford Plant (1975)
…to relate this to duration of asbestos exposure, and to make comparisons with the general population of the State of Ct. Workers employed a year or more in production or maintenance during the period 1/1…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit · March 14, 1975 · in the opinion
Reserve Min. Co. v. Environmental Protection Agcy. (1975)
…make certain waters unfit to drink even after chemical treatment; and WPC 26, a general effluent standard for Lake Superior incorporating the standards of WPC 15. Further, the court found that the discharge into Lake Superior…