Andrew Fletcher, Foundation Facts, Remarks to the Industrial Hygiene Foundation's 15th Annual Meeting (1950)

One page of "Foundation Facts" by Andrew Fletcher, president of the St. Joseph Lead Company and chairman of the Industrial Hygiene Foundation's board of trustees, from the transactions of its 15th annual meeting on November 16, 1950. Fletcher recalls that the Foundation began in 1935, "when a group of companies banded together on account of the silicosis problem," as the Air Hygiene Foundation with some 20 companies, and that it now had about 350. He names the eight companies that joined in 1950 and says the Foundation expected to end the year with $115,000.