869 results for “General Electric”, page 28 of 44
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · July 29, 1964
J. V. Miles to C. L. Sheckler on a Serious Dust Problem at the Marrero Pipe Plant (1964)
…L. Sheckler at General Headquarters on the 1964 industrial hygiene survey. Miles was "disappointed" that only two of the ten dust stations sampled in the Wet End on May 22 had supported the plant's view…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · February 7, 1966
Joe Goldfield to J. A. Vermeulen, Report of a Trip to Turner Brothers Asbestos Co. on Health Problems (1966)
…Co., Ltd., at Rochdale and Hindley Green in England. This part covered "general and health problems." Goldfield described Turner Brothers, part of the Turner & Newall group, and began a history of English health measures, which dated…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · October 8, 1970
John C. Settle of Travelers to Richard R. Standel, Jr. on Settling the Frances T. Rogers Claim (1970)
…Company, to Richard R. Standel, Jr., J-M's associate general counsel, on a claim against J-M by Frances T. Rogers. Settle notes Standel's plans to discuss a possible compromise and says that, since…
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Company document · Sumner Simpson Papers · April 18, 1944
John F. McMahon of the Industrial Hygiene Foundation to O. H. Cilley Sending the Manheim Dust Study (1944)
…to O. H. Cilley, assistant general manager of Raybestos-Manhattan's United States Asbestos Division at Manheim, Pennsylvania, sending the report of the Foundation's recent studies at Manheim, "a part of your continuing dust control…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · January 7, 1936
Johns-Manville and Raybestos-Manhattan Letters on Hiring Dust Counter Otto Binder (1936)
…On March 11 Vandiver Brown, J-M's general attorney, told Judd that "the Metropolitan survey of our two companies is now practically completed" and offered Binder to sample dust at R-M plants to check…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · April 29, 1953
Johns-Manville Board of Directors Minutes on the Celite Dust Abatement Program at Lompoc (1953)
…California. Arthur Elsenbast, vice president and general manager of the Celite Division, told the board that before the early 1930s neither industry nor medicine knew that diatomaceous earth dust was a hazard, and that over $1…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · June 25, 1979
Johns-Manville Chairman of the Board's Bulletin on Smoking and Health at World Headquarters (1979)
…McKinney, setting a smoking policy at Johns-Manville's World Headquarters. Citing "the strong direct link between smoking and several disabling or fatal diseases" and the Surgeon General's report of January 11, 1979, it extended…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · December 17, 1968
Johns-Manville Environmental Health Task Force Policy Committee Minutes, December 1968 (1968)
…pointing up good practices in handling fibre," which president C. B. Burnett suggested be sent each year by registered mail, and Burnett asked general counsel Herbert Ball to look into other countries' rules on warning labels.
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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 · December 19, 1944
Kenneth Smith to F. G. Lippert on Workers Handling Bags of South African Blue Fibre (1944)
…to F. G. Lippert at J-M's general headquarters in New York, headed "South African Blue Fibre." A shipment of 10,000 jute bags marked "Blue C & G" had arrived from California, and because much…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · February 10, 1950
Kenneth W. Smith to R. S. Gardner on the Causes of Lung Cancer (1950)
…and fumes are known to cause lung cancer," he wrote, but he knew of no definite hazard from that source in J-M's general operations. "The chief causes of lung cancer are dust and certain…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · May 13, 1937
L. L. Cohen of Union Asbestos & Rubber to C. Mosier Enclosing Gardner's First Progress Report (1937)
…5/5/37. Cohen asks that "after this report has served its purpose will you be good enough to return to Mr. Silverman." V. Brown (General Attorney, J-M) letter to L.J. Silverman, 5/11…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · 1959
LeGrande v. Johns-Manville Products, Settlement Hearing Transcript (1959)
…Monigan, Jr., for J-M, said the case would be settled by a payment to the plaintiff of $35,000, with dismissal and a general release, and that H. W. Porter Company and its insurer, Travelers…
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Company document · Sumner Simpson Papers · April 5, 1940
Leroy U. Gardner to Sumner Simpson on His Hartford Talk on Dusts (1940)
…answering Sumner Simpson's letter of April 2. Gardner said he planned "a more or less general talk for the medical practicioner" at Hartford and enclosed an outline. "Under non-specific dusts I shall consider everything…
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Company document · Sumner Simpson Papers · March 11, 1935
M. F. Judd to E. H. Jeffords Enclosing a Letter to John Dillon (1935)
…F. Judd of Raybestos-Manhattan to E. H. Jeffords of the company's General Asbestos & Rubber Division in North Charleston, South Carolina. Judd enclosed a copy of a letter written to John Dillon, "which is self…
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Company document · Sumner Simpson Papers · July 23, 1936
M. F. Judd to E. H. Jeffords Forwarding Johns-Manville's Letter on the Charleston Re-check Survey Charge (1936)
…Recheck Survey (1936) M. F. Judd to W. H. Dunn on Charging the Charleston Re-check Survey to the General Asbestos & Rubber Division (1936) E. H. Jeffords to M. F. Judd on Reimbursing the Home Office…
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Company document · Sumner Simpson Papers · February 11, 1935
M. F. Judd to E. H. Jeffords Identifying the Plants in the Metropolitan Life Study (1935)
…to E. H. Jeffords of the company's General Asbestos & Rubber Division in North Charleston, South Carolina, enclosing a copy of Public Health Reports with the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company's study of asbestos workers' lungs…
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Company document · Sumner Simpson Papers · February 8, 1938
M. F. Judd to H. B. Meller Asking for Air Hygiene Foundation Bulletins for Each Division (1938)
…and in future to send a copy of each bulletin to every division "where asbestos operations are conducted": Dunn, E. H. Jeffords at the General Asbestos & Rubber division in North Charleston, South Carolina, and G. R…