38 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 1 of 2
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 28, 1967
N. L. Zutty to Distribution on the 1967 Asbestos Laboratory Program, with R. G. Woolery's Program Summary (1967)
Cover memo from N. L. Zutty to a distribution list transmitting a summary of the 1967 laboratory program on asbestos carried out under R. G. Woolery at Niagara Falls, and asking for comments on consolidating overlapping programs. The attached…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 5, 1972
Paul W. McDaniel to W. N. Johnson on Gravimetric vs. Fiber-Count Evaluation of Asbestos (1972)
Confidential internal letter from the Medical Department's industrial hygiene engineer to W. N. Johnson of Mining & Metals about using a gravimetric (weight) system to evaluate asbestos. It reports that a brief trial at King City found no…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 9, 1973
Floyd H. Larrison Jr. to E. S. Prochnik on Press Coverage of Selikoff's Senate Testimony and the King City Asbestos Operation (1973)
…a clipping reporting Dr. Irving Selikoff's Senate subcommittee testimony. He wrote that the Salinas reporter was told Union Carbide had no comment on the testimony, but that the problems in general, the company's concern…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 18, 1972
John L. Myers to W. N. Johnson Transmitting Draft Interim Toxicology Report on Asbestos for Customer Mailing (1972)
A Feb. 18, 1972 internal memo from John L. Myers to W. N. Johnson sends Calidria's version of a proposed interim toxicology report and asks him to obtain management, medical and legal approvals for a general customer mailing. The exhibit also holds…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · January 5, 1972
W. N. Johnson to R. G. Woolery on Following Up by Phone (1972)
A one-page note from W. N. Johnson to R. G. Woolery dated January 5, 1972. It says that, following a telephone conversation, Johnson would be in touch with the recipient on Friday or Monday. The note lists an enclosure, but none is included in the exhibit.
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 3, 1972
Paul W. McDaniel to J. L. Myers on Asbestos Fiber Survey at American Biltrite Plant, Trenton, N.J. (1972)
Internal Union Carbide letter reporting a March 1, 1972 airborne asbestos fiber survey at the American Biltrite plant in Trenton, N.J., where asbestos was used in plastic tile manufacture. It lists fiber counts at seven…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · January 17, 1972
W. N. Johnson to P. W. McDaniel and Others on the Test Program for Airborne Asbestos (1972)
Memo summarizing arrangements agreed at a January 12 meeting in Niagara for a program to measure airborne asbestos. The program covered a survey of employee exposure at customers' plants near Bartow, Florida, and laboratory tests at Niagara of…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 18, 1972
John L. Myers to W. N. Johnson Transmitting Interim Toxicology Report on Asbestos, with Customer Cover Letter (1972)
Internal memo of February 18, 1972 from John L. Myers to W. N. Johnson, enclosing the Research and Development Department's version of an "Interim Toxicology Report" and asking Johnson to obtain management, medical and legal approvals for general…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 2, 1971
E. Epremian to Asbestos Meeting Distribution Transmitting NRC Airborne Asbestos Extracts and Summary of Asbestos Laws (1971)
Internal memo of September 2, 1971 from E. Epremian sending background for the September 8 asbestos meeting on Environmental Factors. The enclosures are extracts of the 1971 National Research Council report 'Airborne Asbestos' (conclusions and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 28, 1967
N. L. Zutty to J. W. Biddle and Others Transmitting R. G. Woolery's 1967 Asbestos Laboratory Program Summary (1967)
Internal Plastics Division cover memo from N. L. Zutty forwarding a summary of the 1967 asbestos laboratory program run by R. G. Woolery at Niagara Falls, with a proposal to consider consolidating some programs with similar work elsewhere in Group…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 9, 1972
Floyd H. Larrison, Jr. to W. N. Johnson on Air Sampling Program Results near the King City Mill and Mine (1972)
Internal letter from the King City office reporting results of air sampling taken around the King City mill (Feb. 29 and Mar. 1, 1972) and the mine area (Mar. 2, 1972). The letter concludes that no particle counted near the mill was asbestos, says…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 27, 1967
F. H. Thompson to R. G. Woolery on Identification of Asbestos Particles in Paper (1967)
Internal memo reporting a test developed in the paper laboratory to show the distribution of asbestos particles on the surface of cellulosic paper by coating with a vinyl chloride/vinyl acetate polymer solution and heating. It describes six attached…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 20, 1976
T. J. Kagetsu to W. C. Thurber Transmitting J. J. Militello's Design Memo and Cost Estimate for a Wetted Supervisbestos Circuit at King City (1976)
A cover memo from T.J. Kagetsu to W.C. Thurber transmitting a preliminary engineering study for producing "Wetted Supervisbestos" at the King City plant. The attached Design Memo No. 1 by J.J. Militello (August 13, 1976) gives the design criteria,…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 1, 1972
Paul W. McDaniel to J. L. Myers on Asbestos Dust Exposure Study at American Biltrite, Los Angeles (1972)
Internal Union Carbide letter from the Medical Department's industrial hygiene engineer reporting a May 24, 1972 air-sampling study at American Biltrite Co., Los Angeles, of asbestos dust exposure in vinyl floor tile production. It…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 11, 1974
G. J. Weihs, Chrysotile Asbestos Markets and Forecasts for Group 7, with W. C. Thurber Cover Note and Related Memos (1974)
…7', March 1974: summary, conclusions, tables and end-use sections Partial Union Carbide internal form (Berkshire Business Forms) with little legible content; apparently not part of the report Commercial Intelligence memo to William Thurber, May 9…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 21, 1977
W. C. Thurber to R. G. Woolery on Silane-Treated RG-244 (1977)
Internal memo from W.C. Thurber to R.G. Woolery asking him to finish work on silane-treated RG-244 using COF-25 as the base material. The work covered viscosity tests at several silane loadings, a stability check, and pressing a patent application.…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 2, 1976
J. E. Skvarla to R. G. Woolery on a Wetted Dust-Free Supervisbestos Product and Improved Product Quality (1976)
Internal memo from J. E. Skvarla to R. G. Woolery responding to W. C. Thurber's letters on improving Supervisbestos. It proposes making a dust-free wetted product by blending S V filter cake with dry pellets in the Lancaster mixer, citing Niagara…
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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 · April 7, 1972
M. A. Peters to W. N. Johnson on Experimental Results for Airborne Asbestos, Part II (1972)
Memorandum from M. A. Peters reporting experimental work on a method of estimating airborne asbestos by measuring magnesium with atomic absorption spectroscopy instead of counting fibers. It covers reagent and filter blanks and air samples from four…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 18, 1972
John L. Myers to W. N. Johnson Transmitting Interim Toxicology Report on Asbestos for Customer Mailing (1972)
…medical and legal approvals so it could be mailed to customers. The report discusses asbestos health effects, the OSHA and EPA rules of 1971-72 and dust control, and states Union Carbide's position on asbestos.