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FILE NAME: AT&T and other Phone Companies (ATT) DATE: 1948 Nov 13 DOC#: ATT001 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Article from Business Week : : W&M WM| |||| mm Illllli - E. Srcih,' Prom hs nev. plant, boiler fa stis for food (page 6}: A M cG RA be done to cannot come out of pay for service, it from investors. tlxe hundreds of thoueveiyday people in all ie whose confidence in ea rtiing power of the Bell System encourages them to invest their sayings in the business* Reasonable timings will con tinue to attract the additional capital needed. And that in trim will provide the new and improved facilities that will benefit every body who uses the telephone. Earnings that are too low are not in the bestinterests of anybody and can only result in the long ran in deterioration of a vital service. The Bell System does not ask that it be allowed to earn one penny more than is required to do the job. It ashs only what most people and most regulatory' bodies agree is fair and Inst. . . a reasonable re turn to the many men and women all oyer America whose savings have built the telephone business. SELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM Y> ip&: m JH field: Dr. Leonard Grenburg,. New York State Dept; of Labor,, and Occupational Cancer Committee, join up Wife m lo w c o s i by routing alt your easfb ou n d freigh t via New group, representing industry and medical and govern? ment authorities^ maps fight on country's No. 2 killer. First step; a survey that will help determine industrial danger spots. Science grid industry are joining forces to take on a powerful antagonist: occupational cancer. The size of the job can be gaged by the fact that cancer now rates as the second biggest killer in this country. This week, f1w grow:ng )ur/a:ds of oc cupational cancer were the theme of a paper by cancer authority Pfe W . Gifueper, of the National Cancer Insfitute. The occasfen was a meeting of the American Public Health Assn, m Bpston. Dr. Hueper's point: The too: mdrn industry develops, the more yJM is a study of potential industrial danger spots, Starter--Just such a study is the goal ot; New York State's bumd-new Occu pational Cancer Committee, an tmofiScial agency. Members have been worktog on a two-year program. They have ? special fund horn National Cancer Institute of the XL S'. Public Health Service of 532,694 a year to go on. X'hiq and New Jersey are>gcttig similar grants. Industry has representatives cm the committee--Dr. G. H. Gehrraaon, for Mauufaeturirig Chemists Ass.:: and Dr. Arthur E Hoag, for American Pefro- Institute. Other members include BtKUvfrcc ^ijfccv^ . to in to representatives from the XL S. Public Health Service, from New York State Dppts. of Labor and Health, as well as from the medical and scientific centers. Chairman of the new group is Dr. May R. Mayers, chief, Medical Unit, Diy. of Industrial Hygiene, N, Y. State Dept, of Health. The committee knows very well that its job will be tough. For tine thing, no body really knows how big the problem is. As Dr. John R. Heller, Jr., diroetpr of the National Cancer Institute, reported last week to the American Cancer So ciety, there: are no figures to show how many people arc dying today from en vironmental or Industrial cancer.: No one knows, even, how many people arc exposed: bo it. or Where the precise danger lies. Program--Rut with this nebulous start, the committee has Imed up its im mediate plans; (! ) A pilot study at the Roswell Park Memorial Hospital, Buffalo. This, the first large-scale surrey of its kind, will cover 5.00(1 male cancer patients: 1,000 male non-cancer patients will serve as a eontrol. (2) The distribufibn of a leaflet on " Occupational Cancer*' to hospitals, "Sdv time an d money the dependable P ' l ' E way! 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B a t in order to get the best control measures, you first have to know what chenuoils offer the threat. Specially trained personnel will take detailed occupational histories of all cancer patients who enter the Roswell Park Memorial Hospital. The inter viewes will tty to pin down Just what the patient's seeppabonai exposurewas; what: chemical substances he came lu contact with, v.hat other environmental factors were present in the workroom. Since cancer will usually develop only after a great many years of exposureand evn many years after exposure-- c i m i mf : now helps the Iron H orse run sm ooth er .BA^;SEJsi-(!^JliS' are enjoying new standafds/oi eomfert A because of port-land cement " grou t/' a mixture o f pordand ce.me.ritj sand and water* which, when pumped into soft spo ts and water pockets Under tracks, hardens and stabilizes the roadbed. More than 45: major railroads are. now pressure grouting with pordand cement to obtain a smoother riding track.and. to reduce maintenance and operating costs. This is another example of the thousand ways that portland cement and concrete serve and save.. Concrete is the favored material for streets and highways because it is Smooth-riding and lasts iongm--at lower cost to taxpayers. Concrete also provides strength, beauty, firesafety and lorn annual-cvst service for school buildings, hospitals, apartments, factories and municipal structures. Concrete is a wise; investment for homes and form buildings because.it is brsili, stormproof, rat-proof, decay-proof, termiteproof, easy to heat, inexpensive to maintain. Yes, you can depend On. concrete for better service and better living--and be money ahead in the long run too. PORTLAND CEMENT ASSOCIATION 33 W. Grand Ave., Chicago 10, 111. A national organization to improve and extend the uses of portland cement and concrete , , , through scientific research and engineering field work CANCER AUT-IORIY: Dr. W. C. Hnepe; has ideas on how to tackle the proh. ton of (X-cupational cancer this means tracing the patient's history all the way bask to his first job. Sleuthing--f.f a chre? however elusive-- turns op at any point, a chemist will be Called in. His job will be to unearth any .positive proofs that a chemical suspect dray have been fire saufeft of the disease. The data wilt be entered oh punch cards. These will be used as tin? base for A complete statistical study to be. carried out by the Division of Cancer Control of the N. Y, State Dept, of Health, un der the direction of Dr. Pay! Gerhardt. The committee, is ready to follow any suspected ease right into the workroom- Its FiriWv 4vvdIih1c analysis of nvaterials,, mdiation: measure nicjus. chemical anahxis oi: ait ecmtaminauts--dusts, gases, fumes, and the like. That way, if is hoped that occtipaii&nal factors that MG not. now suspected of causing fiances may be broughf to light. * Invesfigafipn Points--Dr. Hucper's pa per broke eimvii the known and sus pected canecr causing Ugetoty intip Physical Agents: These include ultra violet vat , X-rays, and ather radlbacfive substances. Chemical Agents: Inorganic chem icals. such as arsenieiils, tdrcoinates, nickei -caiboiiph asbestos; organic chem icals such as aiphiatic compounds arid iuidncs, benzol, and five undefined com pounds responsible for the c.moe--caus ing action of tar. pitch, asphalt, soot, carbon bijtck, pataftiu oil. creosote, and various crude and processed mineral oils, shale oils, arid some products de rived from them. With this list of suspects, the med ical Kiithanties are particularly inter ested in industries using these materials; As Dr. I-Jeller put it; '`As far as we know, the m ost dangerous areas arc in the field of radioactive substances; flic areas of hydrocarbon research and development, such as the liiglntempfiratui distillation and fractionation of petroleum; and the wide field of orgahk cbeirnstsy which is developing new synthetic chemicals," MM Mg ' s s S s i S i ^ i0 ^ ittiii r p k w4 ^^ f p/u/it&t. y : Assure your letterheads distinctive a p p e a ra n ce -- durability-- - and the added prestige of a famous wafermark. Specify Nekoosa Bond, one of the largest selling papers in the world. NEKOGSA-EDWARDS PAPER CO., PORT EDWARDS, WISCONSIN 42 Neutron Counter This ifaiy. y t i M s -.counter SI* expected to ease one of the toughest jabs of the atomic researcher. It Was recently developed bv Dr. Kuati-Han Sun, Chinese-born physicist i t the Wesfjnghouse Research Laboratories. 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