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FILE NAME: WR Grace (WRG) DATE: February 23, 1938 DOC#: WRG029 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: 1938 Letter to Division of Occupational Hygiene with additional annotation regarding absence in WR Grace files. kJ & \A ~ 3)i:>vky a n iA i,m y Ciik?iicai, C'om paxy . i t . **v 'UA IIK X IIK 'V A L C O A.VI> JOLI S K A L r i l O D I M ' - T S (AMIIKimiK n. >Ia S *A*III.*SKTTS c*wi *a:> c u - o c ici-: February 23, 1933. Ur. Vanirei Sowditch, director, . Division of Occupational Eygiene, Departnent of Labor and Industries, "'The Cocnonrealth of Hassachusetts, 23 Joy Street, boston, Uass. Dear ianfred: W. R. Grace & Co. received this document on July 27, 1985, from the plaintiff as a trial exhibii in Greenville County School Dist. v. U.S. Gypsum Co., et al.. C/A No. 82-3142-14 (U.S.D.C. South Carolina). No copy of this document has been found in Grace's own files. I an sorry if. I sounded as though I suddenly turned into a black sheep with no further interest in asbestosis. That isn't what I nant to convey. I haveko evidence that would'"inpress Lanca. However, despit'e the fact that I love positive proof as well as th next fellow, I know that it will take a lot more than infection experiments to remove the hunch that I have. Your answer to the above is -- what is your hur.cn due to? It is due in a large measure to the followin* circunstar.ces. (You will note that I io not dignify then with the tern of proven facts.) 1. As I understand it, liultibestos ran for years without much trouble. It then switched to Russian and Rhodesian crudes and suffered an enormous anount of trouble. * 2 I have been through plants of conpetitors (for various reasons, I do not want to nane them in a letter but will be perfectly glad to discuss then) where conditions have been so bad that vision froa or.e end of t:.e she.*- to the other was actually impaired by asbestos dust ** ,,.-t air. In some of these, long streamers Of asbestos fiber hung from every bean, sprinkler pipe and shaft nanger "'here these plants reported no trouble, I ccuii not help but be inpressei by the fact that they hod seensi. to have a long his tor- buck' of then of having used only Canadian fiber. GO o ; m W.R. GRACE 104289 BOSTON PRODUCTION * PLAINTIFF'S e^tJi m