Erika Powers to Nancy Stead on Thermobestos Literature for the United States' Fourth Set of Interrogatories (1985)

A two-page Manville memo of April 10, 1985, from Erika Powers to Nancy Stead on Interrogatories 109 to 111 of the United States' fourth set, which asked for all advertising, sales literature and package inserts for Thermobestos pipe covering and block insulation from 1950 to 1980, including any made to Navy specifications MIL-I-2781 and MIL-I-2819. Powers lists the production boxes of Thermobestos, Thermo-12 and Metal-On literature that had been reviewed and filmed in July 1984, and attaches 17 pages of the government production logs and microfilming requests from those days.

What it shows

The last two pages are a handwritten draft of J-M's answers to Requests for Admission 183 to 186 on 85% Magnesia insulation. J-M objects to the wording but says it "used its own literature to aid sales of 85% Magnesia pipe and block insulation," admits that its employees gave J-M literature describing 85% Magnesia pipe and block insulation to non-government companies in the United States, and says that representatives of J-M distributors "used J-M's literature as they saw fit." The draft is undated and may come from a different set of papers.