180 results for “General Electric”, page 5 of 9
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Company document · Sumner Simpson Papers · January 11, 1937
Vandiver Brown to Sumner Simpson on the North Carolina Asbestosis Cases (1937)
A one-page letter of January 11, 1937, from Vandiver Brown, Johns-Manville's general attorney, to Sumner Simpson, president of Raybestos-Manhattan. Brown noted Simpson's report that Union Asbestos & Rubber would pay $250 a…
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Company document · Sumner Simpson Papers · December 28, 1936
Vandiver Brown to Sumner Simpson on the Seven Sponsors of the Saranac Experiments (1936)
A one-page letter of December 28, 1936, from Vandiver Brown, Johns-Manville's general attorney, to Sumner Simpson, president of Raybestos-Manhattan, thanking him for "the very good news that seven members of the industry…
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Company document · Sumner Simpson Papers · January 15, 1940
Vandiver Brown to Sumner Simpson on Two Sponsors Leaving the Saranac Experiments (1940)
A one-page letter of January 15, 1940, from Vandiver Brown, Johns-Manville's general attorney, to Sumner Simpson, president of Raybestos-Manhattan. Brown reported that all the sponsors of Dr. Gardner's experiments had answered…
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Company document · Sumner Simpson Papers · January 4, 1937
Vandiver Brown to Sumner Simpson on Union Asbestos's Limit and Dr. Shull's Paper (1937)
A one-page letter of January 4, 1937, from Vandiver Brown, Johns-Manville's general attorney, to Sumner Simpson, president of Raybestos-Manhattan, answering two letters of December 29. Brown wrote that he was interested in…
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Company document · Sumner Simpson Papers · March 22, 1937
Vandiver Brown to Sumner Simpson Referring the Saranac Invoice to J-M's Auditor (1937)
…Brown, Johns-Manville's general attorney, to Sumner Simpson, president of Raybestos-Manhattan. Brown had received Simpson's letter of March 20 and was referring it, with the invoice, to J-M's general auditor, J…
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Company document · Sumner Simpson Papers · April 5, 1939
Vandiver Brown to Sumner Simpson Returning the Sayers and Dreessen Article (1939)
A short letter of April 5, 1939, from Vandiver Brown, Johns-Manville's general attorney, to Sumner Simpson, president of Raybestos-Manhattan, thanking him for his letter of April 4 and "the interesting article by Drs…
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Company document · Sumner Simpson Papers · November 23, 1936
Vandiver Brown to Sumner Simpson Sending the Memorandum of Agreement for Signatures (1936)
A two-page letter of November 23, 1936, headed "Re: Asbestos Dust Experiments," from Vandiver Brown, Johns-Manville's general attorney, to Sumner Simpson, president of Raybestos-Manhattan. As agreed with Simpson "last Thursday," Brown enclosed…
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Company document · Sumner Simpson Papers · January 12, 1940
Vandiver Brown to Sumner Simpson with Dr. Lanza's Comments on Gardner's Interim Report (1940)
A one-page letter of January 12, 1940, from Vandiver Brown, Johns-Manville's general attorney, to Sumner Simpson, president of Raybestos-Manhattan, "supplementing Dr. Gardner's latest report," with a copy of a letter of…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · October 27, 1948
Vandiver Brown to the Saranac Sponsors Calling a Meeting on the Asbestos Dust Report (1948)
A two-page letter of October 27, 1948, from Vandiver Brown, Johns-Manville's secretary and general attorney, to the companies that paid for the Saranac asbestos experiments: American BrakeBlok, Gatke, Keasbey & Mattison, Raybestos-Manhattan, Russell…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · March 3, 1949
Vandiver Brown to the Saranac Sponsors Enclosing the Revised Report, Asbestos Pneumoconiosis (1949)
An 81-page file: Vandiver Brown's letter of March 3, 1949, as J-M's secretary and general attorney, to the eight other companies that underwrote the Saranac Laboratory asbestos dust experiments (American Brakeblok, Gatke…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · May 11, 1937
Vandiver Brown to Union Asbestos & Rubber Enclosing Gardner's First Progress Report (1937)
A one-paragraph cover letter of May 11, 1937, from Vandiver Brown, Johns-Manville's general attorney, to L. J. Silverman, secretary-treasurer of Union Asbestos & Rubber Company in Chicago, enclosing Dr. Leroy Gardner's "First…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · July 27, 1976
W. B. Reitze, OSHA Letter No. 34 on the 2-Fiber Asbestos Standard (1976)
In Johns-Manville's chronology Johns-Manville's own chronology of what the company knew describes this document as follows: W.B. Reitze memorandum to Senior Officers and Division General Managers, 7/27/76, stating that…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · April 16, 1979
W. B. Reitze to Plant Managers on Posting Industrial Hygiene Survey Reports (1979)
…1979, from W. B. Reitze of Johns-Manville's headquarters health and safety staff to plant, production and general managers, copied to Dr. Paul Kotin. "Once again, it has been brought to my attention that certain…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · March 22, 1968
Warren Max Deutsch to K. V. Lindell on the Caution Statement for Chrysotile Fiber Bags (1968)
A two-page memo of March 22, 1968, from Warren Max Deutsch at Johns-Manville's general headquarters to K. V. Lindell of the Asbestos Fibre Division, copied to C. L. Sheckler and H. M. Jackson…
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Company document · JM Document Review · January 31, 1983
Lois Gaul's Johns-Manville Memo on the Rhode Island Medical Journal (1983)
…1983, from Lois Gaul to D. H. Markusson, J-M's associate general counsel, with copies to K. Richman and B. Diemer, reporting on her review of the Rhode Island Medical Journal from 1938 to 1969…
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Company document · JM Document Review · May 19, 1932
Physical Examinations of Employees at the Manville Factory (1932)
…The report explains how cases were labeled. Positive cases with an earlier job in a dusty trade "were called 'Pneumoconiosis'" (the general term for dust disease of the lungs), and those with no earlier dust history…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · September 19, 1949
H. M. Jackson's Memorandum of the Manville Industrial Hygiene Meeting on Special Cases (1949)
…confidential one-page memorandum of September 19, 1949, by H. M. Jackson at J-M's General Headquarters, recording a meeting on September 14 about industrial hygiene at the Manville, New Jersey, plant, attended by F…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · February 4, 1980
A. Mayer-Pareyn to R. B. Von Wald and J. A. Brown on the Health and Safety History of J-M do Brazil (1980)
…insulation workers at the Rio shipyards wearing respirators when applying material in confined spaces. However, this is not the general practice on insulation jobs." On page 11, the author states that W.B. Reitze pointed out…
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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…