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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…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · September 7, 1955
Asbestos Textile Institute Air Hygiene Committee Minutes on the Quebec Mining Association's Report (1955)
…earlier the textile makers had turned down an autopsy study because of its implications about cancer (June 1955 general meeting). In Johns-Manville's chronology Johns-Manville's own chronology of what the company knew describes…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · December 1, 1954
Asbestos Textile Institute Board of Governors Minutes on the 1955 Budget (1954)
…M. Jackson reported on the Air Hygiene Committee's projects, with the full report left to the General Meeting minutes. The board approved a 1955 budget of $21,500, the purchase of a new abrasion-testing…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · January 3, 1941
Bowers & Rinehart and Vandiver Brown on Joseph Kopicki's Silicosis Claim (1941)
…J-M wished to settle without litigation. On January 6 Vandiver Brown, J-M's general attorney, replied that he had asked the Manville plant for "complete information concerning Mr. Kopicki as revealed by our records…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · May 8, 1968
C. L. Sheckler to Frank H. Zimmerman on Agreement over the Asbestos-Cement Health Safety Booklet (1968)
…noted "an apparent difference of opinion" among the council members, said Certain-Teed, General Aniline and Film, and Johns-Manville had tentatively approved the draft, and wrote that unanimous agreement on any publication dealing with health…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · March 15, 1968
C. L. Sheckler to H. M. Ball on the Resale of Used Fiber Bags (1968)
…L. Sheckler of Johns-Manville's Environmental Control Department to H. M. Ball, the company's general counsel, with a copy to H. M. Jackson. Sheckler reports that many J-M locations were selling empty used…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · July 10, 1948
Canadian Johns-Manville Mine Division Industrial Hygiene Committee Minutes on Mill Dust Control (1948)
…Hygiene Meeting, Mine Division 7/10/48. "Failure of General Headquarters to approve this appropriation is difficult to understand, in view of the fact that it would reduce dust within the mill about 50%. The Industrial…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · March 6, 1980
Clyde A. Szuch to Dr. David Ozonoff Seeking a Medical Historian for Raybestos-Manhattan (1980)
…asks if Dr. Ozonoff would testify on behalf of R-M concerning the general state of occupational medicine as it existed in this country from the 1930's through the World War II years. Szuch tells…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · October 1, 1968
Correspondence on Canadian Johns-Manville's Caution Label for Asbestos Fiber Bags and the British Objections (1968–1969)
…Hendry, general sales manager of Canadian Johns-Manville's Asbestos Fibre Division in Quebec, told customers that "each bag of chrysotile asbestos fibre shipped by this Company will carry a label" warning that inhaling it "over…
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Company document · Sumner Simpson Papers · April 29, 1938
Dr. A. J. Lanza to Vandiver Brown on the Mechanical Action of Asbestos Dust (1938)
…Lanza, assistant medical director of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, to Vandiver Brown, Johns-Manville's general attorney, on Dr. Gardner's second progress report. Lanza wrote that Gardner had told him it was "his growing conviction…
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Company document · Sumner Simpson Papers · June 3, 1935
Dr. Albert S. Gray of the Connecticut Department of Health to M. F. Judd on the Films (1935)
…F. Judd, secretary and general manager of Raybestos-Manhattan. Gray had "the films of which you spoke" and would be glad to comment on them, but felt "it would be better to see you personally regarding…
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Company document · Sumner Simpson Papers · April 8, 1940
Dr. Albert S. Gray of the Connecticut Department of Health to Raybestos-Manhattan on the Stratford Plant Survey (1940)
…for the attention of R. B. Davis, general manager, after a survey of several plant operations. Gray asked for ventilation of the hood over the feed hopper on the trim pulverizer, where "considerable asbestos dust is…
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Company document · Sumner Simpson Papers · January 9, 1940
Dr. Albert S. Gray to R. B. Davis on Visiting the Stratford Plant in February (1940)
…to R. B. Davis, general manager of the Raybestos Division of Raybestos-Manhattan in Bridgeport. Answering Davis's letter of January 3, Gray wrote that since Davis would be away for three weeks, he would get…
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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…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · July 7, 1961
Dr. David T. DuBow, Dr. Kenneth W. Smith and C. H. Grote on Releasing Medical Records to Insurance Companies (1961)
…the Johns-Manville Corporation," and asked Dr. Kenneth W. Smith whether J-M had a general policy. Smith replied on July 19 that with proper authorization the records could be revealed, but "only when the employee…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · March 26, 1959
Dr. David T. DuBow to M. F. Naylor on Releasing Employees' X-Rays to Their Doctors (1959)
…L. Sheckler about how the Medical Department should answer treating physicians who asked to see employees' X-rays. DuBow put the question to the medical departments of six companies: General Motors at Linden, New Jersey, Squibb…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · August 20, 1968
Dr. George W. Wright to Herbert M. Ball on the Asbestosis Defense Task Force (1968)
…in Cleveland and a medical adviser to Johns-Manville, to Herbert M. Ball, J-M's vice president and general counsel. Wright comments point by point on R. R. Standel's plan for an "asbestosis defense…
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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…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · November 6, 1950
Dr. Paul Cartier to A. L. Penhale of Asbestos Corporation on the New York Lung Cancer Conference (1950)
…Gloyne (pathologist) as source material. He states that these researchers have found a tenfold increase in the incidence of lung cancer in the asbestotic group when compared with the general population. Cartier points out that conference…
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Company document · Sumner Simpson Papers · January 9, 1939
Dr. Paul O. Snoke to O. H. Cilley on the Manheim X-Ray Films (1939)
…O. H. Cilley, assistant general manager of the United States Asbestos Division of Raybestos-Manhattan at Manheim, Pennsylvania. Snoke had X-rayed the Manheim workers and was sending "the entire group of films" to Dr. W…