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.* . Miy 15, 1941. * - * * Mr. ft.l. Boyd, Plant Manager, Owzns-voming fibre Class Wo., lewark, 0. Dear **r. Baydt - ~ /j.-.;.. * ' Because of your coapaey's Internet la employee health, Z pb writing to call :* your attention to Hr Hygiene foundation and to invite your organisation to afi'iliatc Descriptive date, including a scale of does is -enclosed. ?. \ ` * :' ` . ' - The foundation is ns organization of sons 250 eoapanles throughout the heavy >.. industries for the protection of caplcyec health. Owens-Illinois Class Coauaiy, in cidentally, played e leading part in getting this organisation started. The founda tion is a strictly non-profit enterprise. It operates along tvo lines toward Its goal of advancing industrial health! (l) fundamental research which is supported at University of ^Mjr.sylvania, Sarnnne (M.Z. Laboratory, Harvard School of Public Health and *tlloa anstltute (the foundation*a headquarters), am which is dotcrlhed in the enclosed Proceedings for our last iinnar.1 seating! (?) aeaberahip services, such '*s l/plant aurveys to dcteralne health hazards, which surveys ars conducted for atabere at cost. If hazards are found, recoaaendations are aadi* for their correction. Surveys are valuable defenses against unjust dales. Sooe coep- nies have obtained . Insurance rate reductions through these ehecfcupa. Adviee is r.vril'.tle on oxhaust - gyetcas, uev installstions, etc. (It is easier to correct plans than plants.) lh'foundation has studies underway to help reduce slek absenteeism. Multi ply your payroll by eight and, if your coapuny is average, you sill get the number of vorkdtye your employees loee each year. Multiply that figure ty lit the daily wage of the can involved and you get your approximate .looses in dollars, olcknoc* causes IE tieec wore absences than accidents.. And comething can be done '-tout it! lounda- . tloo cenberc receive .* digest each acoth of 1st at literature on lndustrl'l health, * including pertinent legal developaenta. .(Sea eempl* copy.) The foundation affords industry a place vhero it can cooperate, collectively and dial with Industrial health intelligently. Isn't that the also step rsther than ' risking government inspection and enforcement of factory health standards? Tht this is s possibility is shown by U.s. 5cnnte bills 195 and ^ -9 which >ould pires industrial hygiene under thoU. 5. Deportment of Lelor. (Ait'ilyeos of th'-ce tills will be furnished upon revuest.) . Very truly yours, b . * jrdiB ends. B/Ut Ur.H. G. hazard v S^Jotr. >. Mchnhon Executive Secretary Owens-Corning lini uGi As Corporation EXECUTIVE OFFICES TOLEDO, OHIO May 9, 1942 % IV.-John F. !feIahon ............................. .................. Industrial Hygiene Foundation of Anerics, Inc. 4*1, Fifth Avenue itt.`burgh, Pennsylvania -- _ ar Mr. McMahon: Blood plasma is the newest and one of the greatest ef medical coverles. It eliminates the need for blood typing because all m& is the sane. In powder fora, it cnn be shipped and used in vart of the world without refrigeration. Mercifully, medical and laboratory men perfected this new llfw* technique on the eve of a war in which it miy be the means of the lives of thousands of fighting Americans. Ve are attaching our current advertisement together with a vVaplo of Fiberglas Cloth used in blood plasma kits. The use of FlLerglas as a filtering medium in cortable transfusion kits is an unusual and a dramatic application and it spotlights the versatility ef this new fora of glass which is proving to be of value in many new and useful ways. Also enclosed is a recent article from The Saturday Evening Fort. It tells how, for the first time in histoiy, poople who stay at hoae cui help win tho war by donatin' a part of their blood to save a life on a battlefield thousands of miles away. Very truly y mire. C32'5-CVflIK0 FIBERGLAS COPrCRATICn William I). Thackeray Advertising Manager i JC } . i-::. : . : .. May 11, 1942 ' * *'* Ur* Willlm X> Thackarey* Advertising Kaaager* Owana-Comlne Jlberglae Corporatlos* To!ado, Ohio _ t 'V.a i v tfee h^aast and or.a of tl.6 gr^aicft r^iovl DwtUr* thaekaraj'V. -r^tea the ncod for bios. typtr.* t e*,,*.*- nu a., ;c. v* Jn ;oler fora, JV crts fee an-i .r.&i in V : C i' -' '".t' S. i!Vi|y-.rr*i.li.-n ThasJfc 70U for your letter of Key 9 tosatfcsr with tha l&terertL&g aaoloauraa* Vo era glad tokaow of the`important rola ... whiob flbarglaa la plAylag lacfh*. aecs*afol :Ut111z?tico of blood pl&aaa* I truet that you will ooatlaea.'t? xaseuber.ua whanaror you have interesting witer-iel af this character crallabls* ,-t's y. w; wur Pirr^v adverUasaunt t*cothcr fix a a j*v: 'jf tv- * ..latii used ii bloo^ ri.esr.v Tn% u:-s cf a.< . j rV-/' c^'-i yafy. jraly1jportt-.<>r.rt..C:>r> a;.?.a; it vx t>. -.. f. -ix'-uvV 5n *pnjicMen-and .It spsltitpvn thV".1*7^7^: v : v.-'.r -.w .*f l*3s> r.ich ie pr^U;r te to cf v*uue *:. ,*.v:y . li-str useful . v , _ / J.i a recent aK^Ca .-John;J*.A<Elabon. . , ? .. 1*. ,.i 1 i> ,'or the f1 rat. 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