79 results for “General Electric”, page 4 of 4
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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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · Sumner Simpson Papers · February 8, 1937
M. F. Judd to Vandiver Brown Sending the Fully Signed Saranac Agreement (1937)
…Judd, secretary of Raybestos-Manhattan, to Vandiver Brown, Johns-Manville's general attorney, enclosing the Memorandum of Agreement, now signed by all the companies named on it, and a copy of the Gatke Corporation's letter…
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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 · 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 · September 9, 1938
Bronson Batchelor to Vandiver Brown on the Public Health Service Asbestosis Study (1938)
…nothing of its findings. Related documents Dreessen and Others, A Study of Asbestosis in the Asbestos Textile Industry (1938) Annual Report of the Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service on Dust Standards (1930)
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · September 16, 1936
J. P. Kottcamp to Vandiver Brown on an Illinois Manufacturers' Meeting About the New Disease Law (1936)
…should be kept on the payroll regardless of the fact that he may later become an expense to the Company." He warned that a "general house cleaning" would cause labor trouble costing more than it saved…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · November 15, 1940
Vandiver Brown to F. G. Lippert on Metropolitan Life and the Jarratt X-Rays (1940)
…11/15/40, to F.G. Lippert, General Headquarters, expresses the concern that Metropolitan Life is not very enthusiastic about continuing to examine and interpret the pre-employment x-rays made at Jarratt. V. Brown says…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · January 18, 1935
Vandiver Brown's Memorandum on the Mellon Institute Symposium on Dust Problems (1935)
…first answer was that it saw no need for the Mellon Institute's services yet (Raybestos-Manhattan's general manager to Brown). In Johns-Manville's chronology Johns-Manville's own chronology of what the company…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · November 7, 1950
Vandiver Brown to J. P. Woodard on Dr. Vorwald's Aluminum Hydroxide Proposal and Publication Rights (1950)
…Dr. Gardner's undertaking proved ineffective because he let the matter dribble out at symposia or as paragraphs or footnotes in articles dealing with the general subject of pneumoconiosis." Related documents Saranac Laboratory, Proposal on Asbestosis…