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FILE NAME Industrial Hygiene Foundation IHF
DATE 1944 DOC IHF022
DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Foundation Facts 1944 Oct & Dec First Pages
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Foundation Facts is a monthly letter Issued
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to industrial concerns holding membership in Industrial Hygiene Foundation The Foundation
is a profit association of industries for the
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October 1944
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No. 10
Program for Ninth Annual Meeting
H. E. Batcheller President of Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation and Chief
Operations of the War Production Board will deliver the keynote address opening the ne
ath Annual Meeting of Members of Industrial Hygiene Foundation at Mellon Institute ,
Ittsburgh on November 15 and 16
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- The keynote address starting at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning November 15
01 be followed by the panel Putting the Disabled Veteran Back to Work This is
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ntinuation of the reports on veteran rehabilitation which made history at the Founda-
on's 1943 meeting More copies of that discussion have been distributed than any
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blication the Foundation ever issued Participants in the panel will be the same
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afternoon
of
the
first
day will
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devoted
to
the Medical
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tions which include reports on Placement Physical Examinations Protection of ces Kers Against Noise Practical Psychiatry in Industry Control of Air Pollution from
Nustrial Stacks Tolerancoef Mon to Heat and Humidity and Findings from Foundation mt Surveys Col. A.J. Lanza M.C. Chairman of the Foundation's Medical Committee Committee
Philip Chairman of the Engineering Committee will preside
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The second day's program opens with the Legal Section presided over by -.
Adore C. Waters Chairman of the Legal Committee Subjects include Medical and
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1 Aspects of Compensation for Partial Disability from Silicosis Second Injury
as Employment Aids to the Handicapped and Legal Developments in 1944 Respect-
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The remainder of the day will be devoted to the
Section which
gee featured by a panel on Sickness Indemnification or health insurance R. A. '
"ae me Associate Actuary Metropolitan Life Insurance Company will preside Phases
subject to be covered are the Economic Basis of Health Sick Benefit Plans
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in- f an analysis of plans in operation from the section of Foundation member 1.
des and Medical Expense Indemnification
des a 30 minute period for open discussion
Following these presentations there :
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The meeting concludes with a talk on the increased importance of industrial
inin industrial relations by V.P. Ahearn Executive Secretary of the National
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triel Sand Association and an Industry Member of the National War Labor Board
Accommodations Limited
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of the increase in Foundation members and the corresponding increase presentatives from member companies the Foundation has been forced to radically ..
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number of invitations to special guests this year Member Companies who
yet sent in the names of their representatives are urged to act immediately
accommodations
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monthly Foundation Facts is
letter issued
to industrial concerns holding membership in '
Industrial Hygiene Foundation The Foundation '
is a profit association of industries for the
advancement of healthful working conditions -
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Vol 6
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No. 12
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Proceedings to be Issued in Parts Veterans Report First :
Hygiene The Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Meeting of Members of Industrial
Foundation held at Mellon Institute on November 15 and 16 will be issued
parts this year rather than in one volume as in the
in several
expedite publication and circulation
past Reason for this is to we
of the material to properly interested parties
within our member companies The subject matter is so
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medicine and
diversified ranging from
efficient m circulation engineering to health insurance law and labor relations that
efficient of the material would be impossible in one
publication
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; the annual Pmuetettiinngg tihse n Do iw saibnlep d rVoeo tef ranfoBramckantdo Wwiolrlk beII the panel discussion at
panel discussion with which the Foundation
published soon This <.
pioneered at the 1943 meeting pub-
lliischaetdionsewpialrlatbeely from the remainderremainder of the Proceedings a year ago The next pub-
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the panel discussion on Sickness
ance The Engineering Section of the
Indemnification or health insur-
will be published
program and the Legal Section
also
separately and
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Section will
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Meeting Received Wide Attention
or Nere
The Ninth Annual Meeting received a national press Numerous news stories
carried by the Associated Press United Press and
their hundreds of client
International News Service to
devoted a lead
newspapers throughout the country The WALL STREET JOURNAL
article on page one to the meeting Meanwhile mumerous trade and tech-
nical journals are publishing highlights of the meeting in their fortfh ort- hcomincomging issues Notable among these is a comprehensive
AND ENGINEERING NEWS
report scheduled by CHEMICAL
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States recentlFyoucnadlalteidon describing the Commerce describing ttention
Meanwhile the Chamber of
of the United
tmtoexnitoiuosn to the Foundation's plant survey services for the control of noxious and
exposures in the workplace and sent literature
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R.E. Zimmerman Heads Research Committee -.
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the Foundation Chairmanship .
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R.E. Zimmerman Sc.D. Vice President U.S. Steel Corporation has accepted
of the Foundation's Research Committee Dr. Zimmerman is a trustee ~
He succeeds the late B.D. Saklatwalla whose death was reported to
undation members at the annual mecting
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Dr. Lanza Returns to Civilian Life
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Col. A.J. Lanza who organized and directed the Occupational Health Division
Army Service Forces was honorably discharged from the Army recently Dr.
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Resistant Chairman of the Foundation's Medical
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Resistant
Resistant Medical
Director
Committee returns Metropolitan Life Insurance
to
his
old
position
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HSGIENE FOUNDATION
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