180 results for “General Electric”, page 7 of 9
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · April 17, 1940
Johns-Manville Executive Bulletin on Respirator and Goggle Prices (1940)
…the company knew describes this document as follows: Executive bulletin dated 4/17/40 from D. Lyons (J-M general headquarters) of 2/1/40, listing costs for respirators and goggles from various vendors in Pittsburgh…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · 1930
Johns-Manville, Instructions to Employees, Manville Factory (1930s)
…fire signals and insurance. Its General Policy begins, "The Company intends that its employees be treated fairly," and invites workers to speak to their supervisor about anything "that might affect the health of employees." New hires…
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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…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · October 10, 1950
M. F. Naylor to J. P. Woodard on X-Ray Follow-Up of 84 Manville Industrial Hygiene Cases (1950)
…to J. P. Woodard at J-M's General Headquarters, headed "Manville Industrial Hygiene Cases." Naylor writes that Dr. Pauly had not agreed to an annual X-ray program for the 84 men on the company…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · November 20, 1936
Memorandum of Agreement Funding Gardner's Asbestos Experiments at Saranac Laboratory (1936)
…Eleven companies signed. The same day Vandiver Brown, J-M's general attorney, authorized Gardner to begin, "for the purpose of determining more definitely the causes and effects of asbestosis," and set the terms: the results…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · November 2, 1978
Notes of Dennis Markusson and Barbara Diemer's Interview of Hugh Jackson on J-M Health and Safety History (1978)
…by Dennis H. Markusson, J-M's associate general counsel, and Barbara Diemer (joined on the second day by a Claudette P.). Jackson summarized the company's past health and safety practice: respirators "were not mandatory…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · March 21, 1969
R. R. Standel, Jr., Report on the Third Legal Problems Subcommittee Meeting of the Environmental Health Task Force (1969)
…B. Burnett, general counsel Herbert Morton Ball and other members of J-M's Environmental Health Task Force, on the March 18 meeting of its Legal Problems Subcommittee. Standel reported that settlement of the Tomplait asbestosis…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · July 25, 1968
R. R. Standel, Jr. to Herbert M. Ball on Common Law Asbestosis Claims and the Tomplait Case (1968)
…Jr., of Johns-Manville's legal department to Herbert Morton Ball, the general counsel, on "Common Law Asbestosis Claims." On the Tomplait lawsuit in Texas, Standel recommends adding an experienced federal trial lawyer to help Gordon…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · August 2, 1968
R. R. Standel, Jr. to Herbert M. Ball on the Members of the Asbestosis Defense Task Force (1968)
…of Johns-Manville's legal department to Herbert Morton Ball, the general counsel, describing the proposed "Asbestosis Defense Task Force." It would have five members: an experienced federal trial lawyer with a background in lung disease…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · February 26, 1980
S. W. McCallie to D. H. Markusson on the EPA's Proposed Rule on Disclosing Health and Safety Studies (1980)
A two-page privileged memo of February 26, 1980, from S. W. McCallie to D. H. Markusson, J-M's associate general counsel, copied to G. E. Parker, R. B. Von Wald, J. F. Reis and…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · 1960
Summary of Asbestos Textile Institute Meetings Attended by H. M. Jackson (1960)
…was a Johns-Manville safety and industrial relations manager who chaired the Asbestos Textile Institute's Air Hygiene Committee in the 1950s. The list gives the dates of thirteen General Meetings he attended, from December 5…
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Company document · Sumner Simpson Papers · January 25, 1935
Vandiver Brown to M. F. Judd on Metropolitan Life's Bill and Otto Binder's Work (1935)
…travel and maintenance costs through December 1934 "to be charged to the Asbestos Association": $355.68 for four Johns-Manville plants and $220.87 for Raybestos-Manhattan's Manhattan Rubber Works and General Asbestos & Rubber plants…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · October 1, 1934
Vandiver Brown to M. F. Judd on Occupations Unsuitable for Minors (1934)
…Johns-Manville's attorney, to M. F. Judd, general manager of the Raybestos Division of Raybestos-Manhattan, copied to S. A. Williams. The Code Authority of the Asbestos Industry had asked its members for their opinions…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · June 10, 1977
W. B. Reitze to H. B. Moreno on Visits to MEISA, Almeria and Asbestos de Mexico (1977)
…best. J-M was a 40% minority stockholder, but he wrote that continuing in the venture "without insisting upon a general overall cleanup is immoral, if not criminal," and that after J-M's U.S…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · August 11, 1975
W. B. Reitze's OSHA Letter No. 31 Making Respirators Mandatory Above the Limit (1975)
…from W. B. Reitze of Johns-Manville's Health, Safety & Environment Department to all J-M senior officers, division general managers and plant, mine and employee relations managers, on respirators and hearing protection. "Almost daily, instances…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · September 11, 1969
W. M. Deutsch to C. L. Sheckler on the New York Sanitary Code and Hazardous Product Labeling (1969)
…any, be reason of . . . inhalation . . . ." Deutsch suggests that the definition be used as a general guide to what a hazardous product is. "In the context of industrial insulation products, . . . consideration is which products, if any, can…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · March 3, 1969
William P. S. Breese to Herbert Morton Ball on Warning Labels for Export Asbestos Fiber (1969)
…counsel, from William P. S. Breese, a J-M attorney, to Herbert Morton Ball, J-M's general counsel, headed "Asbestos Fibre Sales, Warning Labels." The March 3, 1969, memo, written because of president C. B…
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Company document · 1989
Manville Fund's Answers to Interrogatories in Gunn v. Celotex (1989)
…Form B interrogatories in Gunn v. The Celotex Corporation, Civil Action 86-5090 in the U.S. District Court for New Jersey, sworn by the Fund's general counsel, David T. Austern, on December 7, 1989…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · August 5, 1952
Johns-Manville Correspondence on Herbert Miller's Threatened Asbestosis Claim (1952–1953)
…dated 8/5/52, concerning a claim from Herbert Miller. Hall reports: "In accordance with our general understanding with Messrs. Parsonnet, Weitzman & Oransky that all alleged asbestosis cases would be discussed with us before any petitions…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · August 29, 1933
S. A. Williams to A. R. Fisher with Dr. Lanza's Answers on Waukegan Dust Questions (1933)
…it would be better to make a general statement that the Company is taking steps to control the amount of dust in the air for general health purposes." Concerning whether an employee in the asbestos textile…