20 results for “General Electric”
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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 · 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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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 · 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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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · September 30, 1957
Dr. Kenneth W. Smith to F. M. Stumpf of Columbia Acoustics and Fireproofing on Asbestos Hazards (1957)
…Smith notes the general risk but represents that among 2,000 J-M workers handling in excess of 500,000 tons of asbestos annually: "We have developed no new cases of asbestosis for many years." Smith…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · November 5, 1959
Dr. Kenneth W. Smith to H. G. Donovan on the Bonafide Plastics Company (1959)
…The next month Smith told General Motors and Firestone that long inhalation of asbestos may cause lung changes (Smith to General Motors and Firestone). In Johns-Manville's chronology Johns-Manville's own chronology of what…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · April 29, 1963
Dr. Kenneth W. Smith and C. L. Sheckler at the J-M Industrial Relations Managers' Meeting (1963)
…mechanical exhaust systems, and general low grade health standards exists." Sheckler also stated that a major reason for industrial hygiene surveys is to have documented evidence for presentation to governmental agencies when required, as well as…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · October 17, 1961
Dr. Kenneth W. Smith's Industrial Health Talk at the J-M Management Information Session (1961)
…Johns-Manville's chronology Johns-Manville's own chronology of what the company knew describes this document as follows: During a presentation given on 10/17/61 to J-M General Headquarters and Division management personnel…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · September 2, 1947
Letters on the Sixth Saranac Symposium, with Its Compensation Program and Participant List (1947)
…Smith's letter shows that the doctor running J-M's clinic at its largest mine had general safety and accident duties rather than a focus on dust disease (compare his plan with Cartier to review…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · September 12, 1975
Transcript of Dr. Kenneth W. Smith's Taped Message to Kent Wise on Who Decided What J-M Employees Were Told (1975)
…might have been seen. He was not considered competent by non-medical people in general headquarters at the New York office." This document was offered as an exhibit in the trial of Speake v. J-M.