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AMERICAN STRUCTURAL PRODUCTS COMPANY OENEBAL OFFICES TOLEDO 1. OHIO UMIDIARV Or OWENS . ILLINOIS GLASS COMPANY Dr. Arthur J. Vorwald, Director, The Saranac Laboratory of the Edward L. Trudeau Foundation, Saranac Lake, New Tork. Dear Dr. 7orwald: March 31, 19U8 There has been some unavoidable delay in ny replying to your letter of March 3rd in which you ask that we extend our connitment for two years froa May 1, 19US, at the rate of 17,000.00 per year. Frankly, ay reason for confining the definite commit ment to one year is iy lack of confidence in the way this entire transaction has been handled. Me first submitted to your laboratories this problem on February 12, 191(3. By the end of our proposed extension of one year, you will have had the assign ment six years and will have been paid approximately $20,000.00. Mr original conversation with Dr. Gardner certainly did not give me ary reason to expeet that it was a awvmwyear Job to evaluate this one material. It seems to me that we might reasonably expeet to have had in five years from the time we gave your laboratories this project some definite report that would be of veins to us. After sons hesitation, it was my Judgement to extend the assignment for one year and review its status at that time. Please understand that I am not presuming to be competent to Judge the ease or difficulty of work of this kind, but we set out in February 19U3 to determine the status of material and the handllng~or~lt has been quite unsatisfactory. ' l U.S.BowestJg ce - Mr. W. G. Hasard Asbestos Litig. Saranac Lake 1989 Depos. Exhibit p.72 000214 I PLAINTIFF'S * EXH|B|T^ j s\_ - \sa