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Company document · Sumner Simpson Papers · May 20, 1937
Dr. R. R. Sayers of the Public Health Service to E. H. Jeffords on Publishing the North Charleston Dust Study (1937)
…to E. H. Jeffords, general manager of Raybestos-Manhattan's General Asbestos and Rubber plant at North Charleston, South Carolina. Sayers enclosed a paper on the study made at the plant earlier that year, which he…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · September 24, 1979
E. D. Marcucci to J. H. Swensen on Not Labeling Transite Pipe (1979)
…Swensen of Johns-Manville, reporting on a September 20 meeting with Dennis Markusson, J-M's associate general counsel, about labeling Transite pipe. "Since we are firm in our conviction that installers will not be exposed…
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Company document · Sumner Simpson Papers · August 15, 1935
E. H. Jeffords to Edward A. Barrier on the Cotton Content of the North Charleston Dust (1935)
…letter of August 15, 1935, from E. H. Jeffords of Raybestos-Manhattan's General Asbestos & Rubber Division at North Charleston, South Carolina, to Edward A. Barrier of the Arkwright Mutual Fire Insurance Company. Answering Barrier's…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · February 10, 1969
E. M. Fenner to All Plant, Mill and Mine Managers on the Membrane Filter Technique (1969)
…all plant, mill, mine, production and division general managers, announcing that J-M would begin measuring asbestos dust by the membrane filter technique. "The British asbestos industry has used this method for many years," Fenner writes;…
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Company document · Sumner Simpson Papers · July 25, 1935
Edward A. Barrier of Arkwright Mutual to E. H. Jeffords on the North Charleston Dust Tunnel Plans (1935)
…Jeffords, general manager of Raybestos-Manhattan's General Asbestos & Rubber Division at North Charleston, South Carolina. Reviewing blueprints for a new dust-collecting system, Barrier found the plan "in general, satisfactory" but asked how a roof…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · June 14, 1943
Elliott DeForest of the Northwest Magnesia Association to Washington State on Deleting Its Asbestosis Rule (1943)
…of Labor, 6/14/43, requesting on behalf of the Magnesia Association that proposed General Safety Standard 49, Article A-5, re asbestosis "be deleted." DeForest indicates that in the 40-year experience of the Association…
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Company document · Sumner Simpson Papers · November 28, 1936
F. E. Schluter of Thermoid to Sumner Simpson Returning the Signed Saranac Memorandum (1936)
…so that Raybestos-Manhattan's companies U.S. Asbestos and General Asbestos would sign too, and he thought this would "show Union and Gatke that we are taking a larger share of the cost." He declined…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · June 28, 1966
F. J. Solon Jr. to Dr. Kenneth W. Smith Asking for Records on Cancer Among J-M Workers (1966)
…lung cancer and other forms of cancer among employees at J-M's asbestos mines, mills and asbestos-processing plants has been as low or lower than would be expected among the general population. To date…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · December 20, 1978
H. E. Vanherle to Sir Neville Stack, and Stack to J. H. Marsh, on Labeling Calidria Asbestos (1978)
…its European Economic Community (EEC) Advisory Council, told Sir Neville Stack, its director-general, that the European distributor of Union Carbide asbestos had "dropped the idea" of asking for the St. Andrew's cross on bags…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · March 17, 1971
H. M. Jackson to Dr. G. W. Wright and Dr. T. H. Davison on Dr. Enterline's Retiree Study Findings (1971)
…Dr. Enterline commented that in the "non-exposure" plants, maintenance and service personnel had a higher incidence of bronchogenic cancer, whereas production personnel had general population equivalent rates. He also said that at the Asbestos, Quebec…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · December 18, 1956
H. M. Jackson to Schilling on the Travelers Dust Survey of the Manville Pipe Department (1956)
…to Schilling at the Manville plant on a survey of the pipe department in "P" Building made by the Travelers insurance company's laboratory. Jackson writes that the counts "in general" showed adequate control, with exceptions…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · June 22, 1977
Hilton C. Lewinsohn, "Medical Aspects of Occupational Exposure to Asbestos" (1977)
…standards, and the risks to manufacturing workers, to users of asbestos products and to the general public. He concluded that "when adequately controlled the risk of asbestosis and lung cancer can be reduced to virtually nil."
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · December 23, 1968
Hooker Chemical Corporation and N. W. Hendry on Caution Labels for Asbestos Fiber Bags (1968–1969)
…N. W. Hendry, general sales manager of Johns-Manville Asbestos Limited in Asbestos, Quebec. J-M had sent notice a few months earlier that a caution label would become a standard part of its asbestos packaging…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · April 13, 1977
Industrial Health Foundation to Isaac H. Weaver on Raybestos-Manhattan's Membership (1977)
…1937. The corporate membership was dropped in 1957 but the General Asbestos and Rubber Division belonged to the IHF from 1968 until mid 1975 when corporate membership was once again reinstated. Related documents John H. Marsh…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · September 1957
Industrial Hygiene Foundation, An Epidemiological Study of Lung Cancer in Asbestos Miners, Report to the Quebec Asbestos Mining Association (1957)
…the Thetford and Asbestos mines in Quebec to discover whether the incidence of lung cancer is greater among asbestos miners than among the general population and whether there is a correlation between lung cancer and asbestosis…
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Company document · Sumner Simpson Papers · March 4, 1943
J. F. D. Rohrbach to E. H. Jeffords Asking Geilfuss and Heinsohn to Check an Enclosure (1943)
…Connecticut, to E. H. Jeffords, general manager of the company's General Asbestos & Rubber Division in North Charleston, South Carolina. Rohrbach asked Jeffords to have Mr. Geilfuss and Mr. Heinsohn "note the attached" and to say…
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Company document · Sumner Simpson Papers · April 19, 1940
J. F. Fenning, Report on the New England Health Institute Meetings (1940)
…O. H. Cilley, J. H. Matthews and the General Asbestos & Rubber Company. Fenning summarized four talks: Dr. Leroy U. Gardner on the effect of dusts (free silica "very harmful," while "Fibrous substances, as asbestos, cannot be…
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Company document · Sumner Simpson Papers · February 6, 1940
J. H. Matthews and M. N. Garvey on Copies of the Air Hygiene Foundation Report (1940)
…of February 8 typed below. Matthews recalled that on January 16 Sumner Simpson had sent a report from the Air Hygiene Foundation to be read and forwarded to the General Asbestos Division, and asked whether the…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · May 29, 1975
J. R. D. Wilson's Notice to Toronto Plant Employees on Smoking and Asbestos (1975)
…cites a study by Dr. Irving Selikoff of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine indicating that without smoking, lung cancer among asbestos workers would be no higher than in the general population. From June 2, 1975…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · October 16, 1959
J. R. M. Hutcheson to G. S. Smith on Dryer Stack Dust Control at Asbestos, Quebec (1959)
…to G. S. Smith at J-M's general headquarters, on controlling dust from the mill's dryer stacks. Hutcheson accepted Smith's appraisal of high-efficiency collectors and a level of 5 tons per day…