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FILE NAME: General Electric (GE) DATE: 1932-1934 DOC#: GE032 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Downs Collection - Schenectady Museum, NY
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HERMAN RUSSELL, President J. P. HAFTENKAMP, Vice Pr e s id e n t E. C. S C O B E L L , Vic e Pr e s id e n t & Co m p t r o l l e r F. H- P A T T E R S O N , SECRETARY & ASS'T. COMPTROLLER
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Aug. 24th, 1932.
Mr. Gerard Swope, Pres't, General Electric Company, Schenectady, N.Y.
My dear Mr. Swope :
Mr. E.G. Miner, Chariman of our Board and Chairman of the Board of The Pfaudler Company of this City, has asked me to get in touch with you and see if the General Electric Company will not interest themselves in a research study of Silicosis, to he carried on at the Strong Memorial Hospital, this City.
There is available at the Hospital a Research Fellow of the Rockefeller Institute, Dr. Alberto Hurtado, who has interested himself in similar work in Peru. Mr. Miner is trying to secure $12,000.00 for this work, $1,000.00 each from twelve firms. The Eastman Kodak Company, General Railway Signal, Symington Company and others will participate. If you think this is a work which the General Electric Company might support, your participation would be appreciated by the Rochester men.and myself.
Very truly yours,
JJ/W tta u President.
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Sept. 9, 1932.
Dear Gerard;
Philip Drinker writes me that neither ho nor his brother, professor of physiology who has done a good deal of work on dust diseases, has ever heard of Dr.Hurtado and do not foel competent to pass on the question of the value of the research he plans.
As I know nothing about him either, you will have to turn elsewhere to find out. Perhaps the Rockefeller Foundation would be the best place.
Cordially yours
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Schenectady, September 8, .19.52 .
Mr. Gerard Swope President New York Office
Dear Mr. Swope:
Your letter of August 29th arrived while I was on vacation^ returned I found some correspondence from Mr. Miner to Dr'.. 'AiSbiAnf ing proposed donation by the Genera.! Electric -Company p ' 'ha-re b<th' matter in considerable detail.
The fact is that we had D: Covile employed on heaitHihiatex'-dSj . spnti!' ing a great deal of her time on investigations of dust hazards.' ing to. silicosis. We found many serious situations which' did..' on the surface and which had never given us any concern until ,v investigation ana examination of employees., he developed methc count and I believe vie have determined to the satisfaction of c conditions which are safe and which are unsafe. Much money hac ic pended in controlling and eliminating dust hazards.
T h e re are quite a number ,of our p e o p le - who -h av e i n c i p i e n t ^ .tL L 'e o s is f ; ..c o n d itio n , but i t is .surprising that in some activities it r-eoivltes fro'n y;f! .p&ght . ,y e 8 r e before this, begins.,to show much. of. any.'.eyplopigi-ut ,.ln g i f a c t,, we-ihad-bne': 'ease wheret h e e x p o s u r e had,been 'twentyi-^edrS ixt:more1-httcil ;. th e p a t i e n t was.-.'apparently in fairly good health, although the iiings Vfre, p r a c t i c a l l y - d e s t r o y e d . T h i s .e a ^ l b y e e d ie d 'suddenly. ' '
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Dear Gerard :
To r e f u n d y o u r .erory I w i l l t o l l you that you h?cl, up to 1930, an e x p e r t on silicosis, ho v i o l t o d all your plants in which till8 lRzs-.ru is present and. race roco i -iiiouclatic n s a s to dust control. He is Philip Drinker, of the Harvard School of P u b lic H e a lth . Since th e depression he has done n o th in g ,, f e e l i n g ,, as I do. that industrial hygiene in p l a n t s as pood as those of the G-.E. i s son.-thing, of an un necessary luxury under present conditions.
Ke will be able to tell you much better than I hov/ advisable it is to have this pieco of research done in just that way, and I ah. sending, your letter to him
and asking him to answer it.
Very sincerely'' yours
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DIRECTORS OF INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH
February. 1934
29 West 39th St, New York
Members
Addresses and Titles
BASSETT, W H Substitute
American Brass Company, Waterbury, Connecticut; Metallurgical Manager
John R Freeman, Jr
BATCHELOR, H D Substitute
National Carbon Company Research Laboratory, 1280 West 73d St., Cleveland, Ohio (F 0 Box 400); Director of Research
BECKET, Dr F M Substitute
Union .Carbide & Carbon Research Laboratories, Inc, 30 East 42d St, New York; President
J H Critchett
BIGELOW, Dr W D Substitute
National Camiers Association, 1739 H S t , N W, Washington, D C; Chief Chemist, Research Laboratories
E F Kohman
BOLTON, Dr E K Substitute
E I dupont de Nemours & Company, Rm 8024, duFont Bldg, Wilmington, Delaware; Chemical Director
Ernest B Benger
BUCKLEY, Dr OliverE Bell Telephone Laboratories, 463 West St,, New York; Director of Research
Substitute
CHUBB, L W Substitute
Yiestinghouse Electric & Mfg Company, East Pittsburgh, Pa; Director of Research Laboratories
S M Kintner
COLPITTS, E H Substitute
Bell Telephone Laboratories,- 463 West Street, New York; Vice-President
COOLIDGE, Dr Wm D Substitute
General Electric Company, Schenectady, N Y Director of Research Laboratory
L A Hawkins, Executive Engineer, Research Laboratory
DORR, John V N Substitute
The Dorr Company, 247 Park Avenue, New York; President G H Dorr, 61 Broadway, New York; Vice-President, The
Dorr Company.
FRARY, Dr E C Substitute
Aluminum Co of America, New Kensington, Pa (? 0 Box 77); Director of Research
J D Edwards
HASLAM, Dr Robert T Standard Oil Development Company, 26 Broadway, New York; Vice-Fresident and General Manager
Substitute
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Directors of Industrial Research
ITTNSR, Dr M H Substitute
Colgate-Paltaolive-Peet Company, 105 Hudson Street, Jersey City, N J; Chief Chemist
JEWETT, Dr F B Substitute
American Telephone & Telegraph Company, Vice-President; Bell Telephone Laboratories, President; Rm 2631, 195 Broadway, New York
JOHNSTON, Dr John Substitute
Research Laboratory, S Steel Corporation, Kearny, New Jersey; Director
R B Sosman
MAJOR, Dr Randolph T Merck & Co., Rahway, New Jersey, Director of Pure Research Substitute
MATHEWS, Dr J A Substitute
Crucible Steel Co of America, 405 Lexington Avenue, New York; Vice-President and Director of Research
F F McIntosh
MATHEY, G S Substitute
Johnson and Johnson, New Brunswick, New Jersey; Director of Research Laboratory
C F Blotter
MEES, Dr C E K Substitute
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, N Y; Director in charge of Research and Development
MERICA, Dr P D Substitute
International Nickel Company, 67 Wall St, N:w York; Assistant to President
A J Wadhams, Manager, Development & Research Department
REDMAN, Dr L V Substitute
Bakelite Corporation, 247 Park Avenue, New York; Vice-President in charge of Research
A J Weith
STINE, Dr C M A Substitute
E I duPont de Nemours & Company, Wilmington, Delaware; Vice-President
SULLIVAN, Dr E C Substitute
Corning Glass Works, Corning, New York; Vice-Chairman
TAYLOR, E A Substitute
Grasselli Chemical Company, Guardian Bldg, Cleveland, Ohio; Director, Chemical Department
Dr J F W Schulze, Ass't Director, Chemical Department
THOMPSON, Dr G W Substitute
National Lead Company, 105 York St, Brooklyn, N Y; Director of Research
R L Halle
WEIDLEIN, Dr E R Substitute
Mellon Institute of Industrial Research, Director
George D Beal, Assistant Director
Pittsburgh, ?a;
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Diretors of Industrial Research
Members Emeritus
BREYER, F G CHARLESWORTH, H P CORSE, W M FLINN, Alfred D GEER, Dr W C HOWARD, Dr Henry REESE, Dr C L SKINNER, C E WHITAKER, Dr M C WHITNEY, Dr W B
Singmaster Sc Breyer, 420 Lexington Ave., N Y; Partner
American Telephone and Telegraph Co, 195 Broadway, New York; Assistant Chief Engineer
810 - 18th St., N W, Washington, D C; Metallurgical and Chemical Engineer
The Engineering Foundation, Room 1617, 29 West 39th St, New York; Director
624 Highland Road, Ithaca, New York; Research Chemist
Grey Lodge, Paradise Road, Newport, R I; Chemical Engineer
E I duPont de Nemours & Company, Wilmington, Delaware; Consultant
215 Elmore Road, Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, Consultant
American Cyanamid Company, 535 Fifth Avenue, New York; Consulting Chemical Engineer
General Electric Co, Schenectady, New York; Vice-President
John V N Dorr, Chairman
Alfred D Flinn, Secretary 39 West 39th Street, New York
Membership Committee:
Dr F M Becket Dr L V Redman Dr John Johnston
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