38 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 1 of 2
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 1, 1975
John L. Myers to R. E. Byrne, Jr. and Others Enclosing GDCI Drywall Issue with Rhodes and Ingalls Article on Asbestos and Silica Dust (1975)
…L. Ingalls, Union Carbide (part 1) Continuation pages: editor's comments and the article's section on asbestos exposure in the tape joint industry Gold Bond advertisement for asbestos-free joint compounds W. W. Henry Company…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 11, 1975
T. P. Norris Call Report on Several San Francisco Area Customer Calls (Week of 8-11-75)
A four-page call report by T. P. Norris summarizing visits to San Francisco-area customers, including Diamond Shamrock, Imperial Coatings, Gibson-Homans, Rich-Tex, Intercoastal, Standard Oil, Chevron Asphalt, Kelly-Moore Paint and Bay Slurry Seal.…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 9, 1976
John L. Myers to W. C. Thurber on Packaging and Transportation Problems with Asbestos Dust (1976)
Internal memo from John L. Myers of the Calidria Asbestos department to W. C. Thurber, with copies to several others, about customer complaints on dusty asbestos packaging and shipping. Myers recommended shrink-wrapping all bagged products, bag…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 3, 1976
J. L. Myers to W. C. Thurber on Calidria Bag Labelling (1976)
Internal correspondence responding to a request from W. C. Thurber about the warning text on Calidria asbestos bags. It states that bag labelling began in June 1968 with a 'breathing dust may be harmful' warning, and that in June 1972, when the OSHA…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 24, 1975
H. B. Rhodes to W. C. Thurber on Advantages of Dust Controlled "Calidria" Products (1975)
…to dust-controlled Calidria products generally. It lists six advantages: reduced health risk, defense against product liability suits, a counter to union activity, OSHA and EPA compliance positions, and shipping savings. It asks counsel to review…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 16, 1976
John L. Myers to W. C. Thurber on U.S. Asbestos Exports and Calidria's Share (1976)
Internal memo responding to Thurber's inquiry about U.S. asbestos exports in May 1976. It gives tables of monthly-average exports since 1970 and monthly exports for 1976, comparing total U.S. exports with Calidria's tons, dollars and percentage…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 10, 1975
H. B. Rhodes Report of Call on GDCI Executive Board Meeting in Tulsa (1975)
Report of call by H. B. Rhodes on a special meeting of the GDCI Executive Board in Tulsa, OK, to which he was invited to give the asbestos-health view and comment on OSHA activities. It also records his conversations with Frank Chebatoris of the…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 16, 1975
H. B. Rhodes to J. L. Myers on Visit to the GDCI Semiannual Meeting in Omaha (1975)
…describes the audience's reaction, the gypsum companies represented, three new contacts (including a union official and the president of Beadex), and an added note of 10/16/75 about Dr. Selikoff's medical study of…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 12, 1975
J. E. Walsh Report of Call on Tampa Paint & Varnish (Mike Low) About Calidria 244 in Coatings (1975)
A Union Carbide report of a cold call by J. E. Walsh on Tampa Paint & Varnish, maker of Seminole Paints, to introduce Calidria 244 in coatings to technical director Mike Low. Walsh recorded that the company…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 17, 1975
R. E. Byrne, Jr. and G. L. Dickson Report of Call on General Electric (NASA), League City, Texas, on RG-600 Interest (1975)
Report of a call on General Electric personnel at NASA in League City, Texas, to determine the status of interest in RG-600. It records that NASA staff were interested in fire-resistant plastics for the space shuttle and skylab projects, were given…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 3, 1976
J. L. Myers to W. C. Thurber on Calidria Asbestos Bag Labelling (1976)
Internal Union Carbide memo responding to a request from W. C. Thurber about bag labelling. It states that bag warnings began in June 1968 with the text 'Breathing dust may be harmful' and that in June…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 3, 1976
J. L. Myers to W. C. Thurber on Calidria Asbestos Bag Labelling (1976)
Internal correspondence from the Calidria Asbestos marketing department responding to a request from W. C. Thurber about bag labelling. It states that bag warnings began in June 1968 and that the wording was changed in June 1972 to comply with the…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 30, 1976
H. B. Rhodes to J. L. Myers on Status of the Denver Drywall Asbestos Problem (1976)
Memo reporting on a Colorado OSHA inspection of Denver Drywall, a contractor at the Johns-Manville headquarters job in Denver that used a joint compound containing about 1% SG-210 asbestos. It describes the citations, UCC's dust sampling, the…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 23, 1976
B. L. Ingalls to G. L. Dickson on Corrosion Attributed to HPO Calidria Asbestos in Metal Substrate Applications at Parr Inc. and Rapid Systems Co. (1976)
Memo updating the status of Union Carbide's investigation of corrosion problems that Parr Inc. and Rapid Systems Co. in Ohio attributed to HPO (Calidria) chrysotile used in metal substrate applications. It reports that Rapid Systems…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 5, 1977
John L. Myers to R. L. Schult, W. C. Thurber and R. G. Woolery Forwarding a Columbia Journalism Review Article on Selikoff, NIOSH and the ANPA (1977)
…paper, cites R. G. Woolery's papers on asbestos in paper-making and Union Carbide's marketing of high-purity asbestos for pitch control, and quotes Myers on when asbestos use in paper began and declined.
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 10, 1975
H. B. Rhodes Report of Call on GDCI Executive Board Meeting in Tulsa (1975)
Report of call by H. B. Rhodes on a special GDCI Executive Board meeting in Tulsa, OK, to which he was invited to discuss the asbestos-health situation and OSHA activities. It also records a conversation with D. B. Green of the Gypsum Drywall…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 1, 1975
John L. Myers to Calidria Sales and Technical Staff Transmitting GDCI Drywall Article on Asbestos and Silica Dust (1975)
…B. L. Ingalls (Union Carbide) Continuation pages: end of Editor's Comments and the article's section on asbestos exposure in the tape joint industry Gold Bond advertisement for asbestos-free joint compounds W. W. Henry…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 1, 1976
John L. Myers to W. C. Thurber Transmitting the Calidria Asbestos 5-Year Sales Forecast (1976)
Internal Metals Division memo from John L. Myers to W. C. Thurber enclosing a 5-year forecast for Calidria asbestos, with back-up sheets for higher-volume products and export sales. The memo lists RG-600 sales estimates for 1977-1981 separately and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 6, 1976
John L. Myers to W. C. Thurber on April 1976 Calidria Sales Compared with Forecast II (1976)
Internal memo from John L. Myers to W. C. Thurber comparing unofficial April 1976 Calidria sales with first-quarter actuals and 2Q Forecast II monthly averages. It reports export sales above forecast and domestic sales below, discusses shortfalls at…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 26, 1975
R. E. Byrne and G. L. Dickson Call Report on B.F. Goodrich Co. Evaluation of RG-600 (1975)
Report of a call on B.F. Goodrich Co. of Brecksville, Ohio, where Dr. P. J. George and R. A. Wharton were interviewed to determine the status of their RG-600 evaluation. The report states that Goodrich tried RG-600 to reinforce Bisphenol A epoxy and…