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April 4, 1929 f Mr* Calvin P* Reiei, The Travelers Insurance Co., 30-42 E. 42nd St., Hew York City* Pear lir. Reid: . . . . . I am enclosing herewith a copv^jf a letter and an enclosure which I received from Mr. Agent of the standard Oil Company (Ohio), in the matter of the illness and death of X believe that the in formation contained in this letter will be adequate for our purposes and I see no reason for further investigation of this matter* You will understand, X am sure, from the state, ment of Dr. Crum thatthere Is no reason for associating lead with, this man*s illness and death. In addition to this statement X might add that we have definitely shown that there is no absorption of lead out of gasoline by inhalation alone, an<3 all of our animal experimentation together with our observations on men over a period of five years fail to show any evidence that lead is absorb ed out of gasoline* he have reason to believe, therefore, from our observations that lead poisoning is not likely to be associated with the handling of Ethyl Gasoline, and further in the case of this man we have a type of illness which has never been associated with lead poisoning. I feel, therefore, that w can regard this as a closed case. Very truly yours, RAKjEJ Enel* 2 hi