59 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 1 of 3
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Book · 1961 · page 5
Modern Refractory Practice: 4th Edition (1961)
In the document: …Affiliated Companies Harbison-Walker Refractories Company ... Harbison-Walker Sales Company.................... Thermal Refractories Company........................ Northwest Magnesite Company........................ Harbison-Carborundum Corporation................ Canadian Refractories Limited ........................ Clayburn-Harbison Limited............................ Western Refractories Limited........................ Fabrica de Ladrillos Industriales y Refractarios Harbison-Walker…
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Book · 1977
Cancer risk of asbestos exposure (1977)
…the author's group's earlier studies of insulation and amosite-factory workers. Among 632 New York-area insulation union members on the 1943 rolls, 89 had died of lung cancer by the end of 1974…
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Book · 1973
Biological effects of asbestos (1973)
…a list of participants, and section title pages. The foreword described an international study coordinated by the International Union Against Cancer (UICC) from 1964. The introduction gave background on the commercial asbestos fibre types, naming crocidolite…
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Book · 1987
Ellis Island, The Coal Mines, to the Asbestos Capital of the World (1987)
…the town, salvaging transite pipe and asbestos wall board from the company dump, and a 1970 talk by Dr. Selicoff at the union office. The introduction links dust inhalation to Johns-Manville's Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
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Book · 2025
In a Rain of Dust: Death, Deceit, and the Lawyer Who Busted Big Asbestos (2025)
…Drawing on interviews, the author follows the case from 1995, when the National Union of Mineworkers approached Meeran, through the House of Lords ruling of July 2000 that let it proceed in England, to a £10…
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Book · 1978
NBC's Meet the Press, Sunday, June 25, 1978. The Environment: How Cancerous?
…guests: Selikoff (Mount Sinai School of Medicine), Upton (National Cancer Institute), Kotin (Johns-Manville Corporation), Wolfe (Health Research Group), Kennedy (Food and Drug Administration) and Mazzocchi (Oil, Chemical & Atomic Workers International Union). Topics included asbestos, saccharin…
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Book · 1980
The Cancer Syndrome (Excerpt) (1980)
…and only 20 appeared free of it. The author quoted Irving Selikoff's follow-up of 632 men in a New York pipefitters union from 1943 to 1977. That group had 210 cancer deaths where 56…
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Book · 1978
NBC's Meet the Press, Sunday, June 25, 1978: The Environment: How Cancerous?
…of Medicine, Dr. Arthur C. Upton of the National Cancer Institute and Dr. Paul Kotin of Johns-Manville Corporation, answered journalists' questions about environmental cancer, including asbestos. The speakers gave opinions and referred to research, such…
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Book · 1932 · page 116
Working for the Soviets: An American Engineer in Russia (1932)
In the document: WORKING FOR THE SOVIETS technical nature in the Soviet Union. I was also to do likewise before the District Council of People’s Economy in Sverdlovsk. As the thirty or forty members of the former must…
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Book · JM Knowledge Chronology · 1955
Kenneth W. Smith, "Asbestosis," Chapter 2 of The Pneumoconioses (1955)
What it shows Smith objects that "The term 'asbestos worker' has been used too freely," since it often meant a member of the Asbestos Workers Union, insulators who also applied mineral wool, glass fiber and magnesia…
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Book · 1928 · page 27
Asbestos: Its Sources, Extraction, Preparation, Manufacture and Uses in Industry and Engineering (1928)
In the document: fourteen miles from Godwan River Station on the eastern liney is an important occurrence of chrysotile Which is being actively ex ploited and is at present the most productive source of chrysotile in the Union; the…
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Book · 1961 · page 16
Asbestos Textile Institute: Handbook of Asbestos Textiles, Second Edition (1961)
In the document: …is used principally in the manufacture of thermal in sulation. Deposits located in Transvaal Province, Union of South Africa, provide the only commercial source of amosite fiber. Approximately 57,000 short tons were produced there in…
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Book · 1911 · page 67
Canada To-Day: The "Land of Opportunity" Pictured by Pen and Camera (1911)
In the document: “CANADA” ANNUAL, 1911. Cable Address : “ Doilco” REALESTATE INSURANCEJ^Mff “ CANADA ” ANNUAL, 1911. Codes : Western Union or Bedford, McNeil. TIMBER LIMITS MINES THE dOHN^BMUEOD©] 516 PENDER STREET WEST^^^^^RO.BOX 879, VANCOUVER,B.C.. BANKERS—THE BANK OF TORONTO…
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Book · 1599 · page 461
Dell'Historia Naturale di Ferrante Imperato Napolitano, Libri XXVIII (1599)
In the document: | LIBRO DECIMOQVINTO. 427 E della (ua forte ligatura ne pigliamo argométo., percioche nel fuo Union forte alleffamento non fifà feparazione della fotril graltezza dalla grofla, daen È, come auuiene nelle graflezze di animali,c dipiante…
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Book · 1974 · page 4
Industrial Toxicology, Third Edition (1974)
In the document: …Harrington (1965)? Do asbestos workers suffer a risk of gastrointestinal ncoplasm, as Selikoff's group reports (1964)? The International Union Against Cancer is at work on the epidemiology. and a group under J. C. Gilson of…
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Book · 1937 · page 45
The Environment and its Effect Upon Man (1937)
In the document: …UPON MAN EFFECTS OF HEAT AND HUMIDITY common in the West Indies, in the British Isles, in Europe, in the Union of South Africa and in Japan. 8. Notably low rates are exhibited for Finland, Sweden…
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Book · 1927 · page 25
Asbest: seine Fundstellen, Gewinnung, Aufbereitung, Verarbeitung und Anwendung in Industrie und Technik (1927)
In the document: …lfbeftmaterial eine immer grower werbenbe SBebeutung fiir bie ^Ifbeftinbuftrie im aUgemeinen befommt Sabei fteigert fid) bet SBebarf fur ben innerruffifc^en SJlartt mit bet geit immer meljr* c) Mfrifcu ©as fiibafrifanifdje Sebiet ber Z/Union,,/ namlicf) Sransuaal…
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Book · 1897 · page 94
Asbestos and Asbestic: Their Properties, Occurrence, and Use (1897)
In the document: …started work on some adjoining land, also with good prospects of success ; but unfortunately their capital was deposited with the Union Bank at St. John's during the late financial crash, so it came about that…
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Book · 1919 · page 129
Asbestos: From Mine to Finished Product (1919)
In the document: ASBESTOS AND MINERAL CORPORATION Whitehall Building, NEW YORK Special Representatives in Cleveland, Ohio, and San Francisco, Cal. FOREIGN OFFICES LONDON, ENGLAND PARIS, FRANCE ROTTERDAM, HOLLAND CHRISTIANA, NORWAY SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA TOKIO, JAPAN STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN ANTWERP, BELGIUM GENOA…
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Book · 1967 · page 9
Asbestos Textile Institute: Handbook of Asbestos Textiles, Third Edition (1967)
In the document: …but little has been available in i ecent years. Chrysotile is also produced in substantial tonnages in Italy, Swaziland and the Union of South Africa and in smaller amounts in Cyprus, Japan, Yugoslavia and other countries…