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CONflJJENTlAi, Mellon Institute of Industrial Researc PLAINTIFF'S EXHIBIT UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH Re eri: i \*l 1 Approved Date1 PROGRESS REPORT for the wees: ended January 1345 IM-UoT.ilAL HyuIH.1 FGUIh-'.-iIIuIy Subjects under which report is to be indexed Industrial Fellowship Ko. 253-11 3 copies made: 1 - Mellon Institute 2 - Industrial Hygiene file The dust counts were completed on the samples collected at Shop ;;o. ? ana V.'crks lie. 4, Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, Ford City, Pennsylvania. Samples of resin-glass fibre dust from the Owens Corning Corporation were sieved and taken to the Bureau of Mines for explosion tests. The reports covering the surveys of Anaconda '..'ire and Cable .Company at Marion, Indiana and Anderson, Indiana were completed. - A conference was held with Mr. Arthur Masters of Thompson and Company, Oakaont, Pennsylvania regarding possible substitutes for the skin irritants ... present in their neil coating compound. The study is being done at the request . of Jones ;.nd Laughlin Steel Company. Mr. Harold R. Beck of the Hopper's Tar Properties Fellowship made some valuable suggestions for substitutes. ; Portions of the January 1945 issue of Industrial Hygiene Digest were- proofread. The report for Pittsburgh Piste Glass Company, V.'orks ITo. 4, Ford City, is being prepared. Francis Holden Senior Fellov