27 results for “General Electric”, page 1 of 2
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · February 6, 1957
J-M Correspondence on Funding a Cardio-Pulmonary Laboratory at Middlesex General Hospital (1957)
A file of letters and memos from February to July 1957 on a request that J-M help pay for a cardio-pulmonary function laboratory at Middlesex General Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Dr. Joseph…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · December 21, 1959
Dr. Kenneth W. Smith to General Motors and Firestone on Asbestos Fiber (1959)
…knew describes this document as follows: Dr. K.W. Smith response (12/21/59) to General Motors' and Firestone Tire & Rubber Company's request for information regarding asbestos fiber. Dr. Smith states that it is a …
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · June 29, 1945
A. R. Fisher to J. P. Woodard on Keeping Dr. Stevenson as a Consultant for Asbestosis Cases (1945)
A short internal memo of June 29, 1945, from A. R. Fisher at Johns-Manville's general headquarters to J. P. Woodard, headed "Dr. Stevenson - Asbestos Retirement," with a copy to J. P. Syme. Fisher writes…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · August 18, 1949
J. P. Woodard to C. M. McGaw on Approval of Dust Control at Asbestos, Quebec (1949)
…personal and confidential one-page note of August 18, 1949, from J. P. Woodard at J-M's General Headquarters to C. M. McGaw at Asbestos, Quebec. Woodard wrote that approval had been granted the day…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · April 15, 1949
J. P. Woodard to George K. Foster on Dr. Smith's Comments on the Saranac Report (1949)
…April 15, 1949, from J. P. Woodard at J-M's General Headquarters to George K. Foster, on Dr. Ken Smith's summary and comments on the Saranac report "Asbestos Pneumoconiosis" (Smith to Foster). Woodard thought…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · March 3, 1950
J. P. Woodard to Kenneth W. Smith on Dr. Lanza's View of Merewether's Paper (1950)
A one-page confidential memo of March 3, 1950, from J. P. Woodard at J-M's General Headquarters to Dr. Kenneth W. Smith, headed "Asbestosis: Dr. Merewether." The copy is mostly illegible. Woodard reported that…
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Book · JM Knowledge Chronology · 1955
Kenneth W. Smith, "Asbestosis," Chapter 2 of The Pneumoconioses (1955)
…Among those workers who Dr. Smith has followed over the last 18 years and who have been exposed only to chrysotile fiber, there have been no more cases of lung cancer than among the general population.
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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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · JM Knowledge Chronology · October 10, 1950
M. F. Naylor to J. P. Woodard on X-Ray Follow-Up of 84 Manville Industrial Hygiene Cases (1950)
…to J. P. Woodard at J-M's General Headquarters, headed "Manville Industrial Hygiene Cases." Naylor writes that Dr. Pauly had not agreed to an annual X-ray program for the 84 men on the company…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · July 17, 1958
Ralph M. Barley, Herbert Ball and Dr. Kenneth Smith on Raybestos-Manhattan's Asbestosis and Lung Cancer Claims (1958)
…wrote to Herbert Morton Ball, Johns-Manville's secretary and general attorney, that the company "has a great many cases of asbestosis" from its Manheim plant and now faced a claim (the Geiman case) linking asbestosis…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · December 30, 1957
Dr. Kenneth Smith to Ivan Sabourin on the Condensed Industrial Hygiene Foundation Survey (1957)
…stressing that "the hypothesis that asbestos miners do not have a higher mortality from lung cancer than does the general population cannot be rejected." He also agreed with Doctors Cartier and Braun that some workers "probably…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · April 18, 1957
Dr. Kenneth W. Smith to A. J. Stenari on a Customer's Silicosis Question about Steam-Cured Asbestos Cement (1957)
…such inquiries should be handled one at a time, and "it is the responsibility of the General Attorney to approve all written or oral representations to customers in the field of occupational health." In 1957, then…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · November 27, 1948
Dr. Kenneth W. Smith to W. A. Young on Asbestos and Silica Hazards at the Toronto Plant (1948)
…"but not for general publication," that men there sometimes developed "rather obstinate cases of pneumonia." He advised taking dust counts so that good counts would help "dispel any rumors which may arise," and suggested telling the…
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Article · JM Knowledge Chronology · August 1955
Kenneth W. Smith, "Pulmonary Disability in Asbestos Workers" (1955)
…It also states as a general finding that "no cases of asbestosis were found who had worked less than 20 years in the dust." In Johns-Manville's chronology Johns-Manville's own chronology of what…