15 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · January 5, 1972
W. N. Johnson to R. G. Woolery on Following Up by Phone (1972)
A one-page note from W. N. Johnson to R. G. Woolery dated January 5, 1972. It says that, following a telephone conversation, Johnson would be in touch with the recipient on Friday or Monday. The note lists an enclosure, but none is included in the exhibit.
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · January 17, 1972
W. N. Johnson to P. W. McDaniel and Others on the Test Program for Airborne Asbestos (1972)
Memo summarizing arrangements agreed at a January 12 meeting in Niagara for a program to measure airborne asbestos. The program covered a survey of employee exposure at customers' plants near Bartow, Florida, and laboratory tests at Niagara of…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 14, 1975
R. G. Woolery to Professor P. K. Metha on Pozzolanic Potential of Calidria Asbestos Tailings (1975)
Letter from Union Carbide's Mineral Sciences manager to a University of California civil engineering professor asking him to evaluate tailings from the King City chrysotile asbestos mill for pozzolanic potential. It describes the tailings, gives…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 11, 1974
G. J. Weihs, Chrysotile Asbestos Markets and Forecasts for Group 7, with W. C. Thurber Cover Note and Related Memos (1974)
…7', March 1974: summary, conclusions, tables and end-use sections Partial Union Carbide internal form (Berkshire Business Forms) with little legible content; apparently not part of the report Commercial Intelligence memo to William Thurber, May 9…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 6, 1975
R. G. Woolery to Professor P. K. Mehta on Shelving the Asbestos Tailings Cement Additive Study (1975)
Letter from R. G. Woolery to Professor P. K. Mehta of the University of California, Berkeley, thanking him for his response to a request for exploratory studies on using asbestos tailings as a cement additive. Woolery wrote that legal advice was…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 5, 1977
John L. Myers to R. L. Schult, W. C. Thurber and R. G. Woolery Forwarding a Columbia Journalism Review Article on Selikoff, NIOSH and the ANPA (1977)
…paper, cites R. G. Woolery's papers on asbestos in paper-making and Union Carbide's marketing of high-purity asbestos for pitch control, and quotes Myers on when asbestos use in paper began and declined.
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 7, 1972
M. A. Peters to W. N. Johnson on Experimental Results for Airborne Asbestos, Part II (1972)
Memorandum from M. A. Peters reporting experimental work on a method of estimating airborne asbestos by measuring magnesium with atomic absorption spectroscopy instead of counting fibers. It covers reagent and filter blanks and air samples from four…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 14, 1974
J. E. Skvarla to R. G. Woolery on the Construction Schedule for the Building 169 Asbestos Pilot Plant, with W. C. Thurber's Handwritten Note (1974)
A May 14, 1974 memorandum from J. E. Skvarla to R. G. Woolery gave a projected schedule for building the Building 169 asbestos pilot plant, with dates for engineering, equipment installation, purchase orders, relocation from Building 158 and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 28, 1978
R. G. Woolery to W. C. Thurber on Speculative Operating Cost Estimate for Silane-Treated Asbestos, Dresser Process (1978)
Internal correspondence in which R. G. Woolery estimated that a competitor's operating cost to produce a silane-treated leached asbestos product by the Dresser process would be about $0.70 per pound, excluding the price of silane. The attached…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 10, 1971
J. E. Skvarla to P. J. Colpoys on Weighting Agent Made from King City Asbestos Tailings (1971)
Internal correspondence from J. E. Skvarla to P. J. Colpoys reporting that an experimental 180 lb lot of oil well weighting agent made from King City plant tailings had been shipped. It lists the lot's specifications against the required ones, gives…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 17, 1973
K. S. Chopra to J. L. Myers on Determination of Asbestos in Water (1973)
Memorandum reporting analysis of three water samples labeled "effluent," "river-below" and "river-above" for asbestos content, using centrifuging, chemical analysis for magnesium, X-ray diffraction and electron microscopy. It reports definite…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 17, 1973
K. S. Chopra to J. L. Myers on Determination of Asbestos in Water (1973)
Memorandum reporting the analysis of water samples marked "effluent," "river-below" and "river-above" for asbestos content. It describes the centrifuging and residue-weighing procedure and a magnesium analysis of the effluent residue, and gives…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 16, 1977
H. B. Rhodes to C. R. Allenbach on Toxic Substances Control Act Listings for Calidria Asbestos Products (1977)
Internal Metals Division memo from H. B. Rhodes to Dr. C. R. Allenbach responding to a request for data to prepare Toxic Substances Control Act listings. It lists additional Calidria chrysotile products and their approximate compositions, lists…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 3, 1976
H. B. Rhodes to F. H. Larrison on Preparing 1800 lb. of COF-25 Asbestos for the FDA Animal Feeding Test (1976)
Internal Union Carbide memo confirming an April 30, 1976 phone call in which the company agreed to supply the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences, at FDA's request, with 1800 lbs. of COF-25 asbestos…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 29, 1972
M. A. Peters to G. L. Dickson and Others on Experimental Results for Airborne Asbestos in Dumping and Sanding Tests (1972)
Memorandum reporting airborne asbestos fiber counts measured during dumping of various asbestos grades at Niagara Falls and during hand and electric sanding of tape joint compound and asbestos-containing paint, plus Florida field samples. It also…