7 results for “General Electric”
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · July 28, 1931
E. M. Voorhees to S. A. Williams on Dust Conditions at J-M Factories (1931)
…1931, from E. M. Voorhees at J-M's General Headquarters to Vice President S. A. Williams, headed "Dust Conditions at Our Factories." It begins: "Ever since the dust suits have been brought against us at…
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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 · 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 · 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…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · February 12, 1932
Correspondence on Dr. F. V. Meriwether's Reading of Manville Plant X-Rays (1932)
What it shows At first the Surgeon General, H. S. Cumming, refused permission, writing that the work "appears to be only for the benefit of one company and can not be considered as research work" and…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · December 23, 1932
J. E. Begert to S. A. Williams on Dust Collecting Equipment at Alexandria (1932)
What it shows On examinations, Begert writes: "We give our men only a casual general physical examination, inspecting chiefly for ruptures, hernia, sight, hearing and stiff joints. We make no attempt at all to examine the…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · July 2, 1935
J. P. Kottcamp to S. A. Williams on Waukegan Dust Collecting Equipment (1935)
…the company knew describes this document as follows: J.P. Kottcamp (Waukegan) asks S.A. Williams (General Headquarters), in a memorandum dated 7/2/35, what to do about certain approved budget proposals for dust control…