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FILE NAME: Kent (KNT) DATE: 1954 DOC#: KNT017 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Trade Journal Article - Cigarettes: New Filter Entry, with Cover Letters H & V SPECIALTIES CO., INC. A Subsidiary o f Hollingsworth & Vose Company Office-. E ast V.'ai,ple, Mass. EAST WALPOLE, MASSACHUSETTS Planl): WsST G*0IUI<i MilSi December 3 , 195^ ; 1 D r . H. B. Parmele .. ' - i P. L o r i l l a r d Company * Old Gold Branch 111 F i r s t S t r e e t J e r s e y C i t y 2 , New J e r s e y Dear Dr. Parmele: We wish- t o acknowledge r e c e i p t o f and t h a n k you f o r f o u r of your l e t t e r s dated December 1, two addressed to the w r i t e r ; the o t h e r two b e i n g c o p i e s o f l e t t e r s to o u r Mr. Lurvey and t o Mr. Ralph M. W i n t e r s , J r . of American V i s c o s e C o r p o r a t i o n r e s p e c t i v e l y . Taking t h e s e up in sequence, y our r e p o r t on the m aster r o l l c o n t a i n i n g Dacron m i c r o f i b e r s i n t h e 30 g / s q . y d . web weight i s r a t h e r disappointing from a removal point of view. This poor performance i s undoubtedly, as you su g g est, due to the improper d isp e rsio n of m i c r o f i b e r s th r o u g h o u t th e web. Obviously any mechanical h a n d lin g which t h e m i c r o f i b e r s a r e s u b j e c t t o r e s u l t s i n an- a g g l o m e r a t i o n of same w ith su b s eq u e n t impairment of f i l t e r i n g a c t i o n . This i s borne out by your t e s t r e s u l t s on the m a t e r i a l subm itted by American V i s c o s e , a s r e p o r t e d i n y o u r l e t t e r to Mr. W i n t e r s . The o th e r two l e t t e r s p e r t a i n to th e problem of anchoring the asbestos in the present micromite fu rn ish . In view of the contem p l a t e d e l i m i n a t i o n o f a s b e s t o s , we d id n o t wish t o go i n t o any d etailed analysis of Dr. Fullam's findings a t th is time. I t does seem obvious t h a t h i s t e s t r e s u l t s make l i t t l e s e n s e . I f you d e s i r e , we w i l l go i n t o t h i s problem in g r e a t e r d e t a i l a f t e r th e p r e s e n t p r o gram of d e cid in g on a colored s u b s t i t u t e f o r the a sb esto s has been s o l v e d . We hope t h a t one of th e samples which Mr. Lurvey i s t a k i n g to Jersey City today w ill prove sa tisfa c to ry in th is regard. -i" Yours very tr u ly , ' H & V SPECIALTIES JiO., INC. 00420680 HWK/rob Haro ld W. Knudson Technical Director S M KrO R M A H C i o r M .L AAACENKN TS I t tU O JE C T TO (LA Y CAUtKO t t STR IK ES. WOE fT O rM B K S 0 SLOW DOWNS. A C C ID tH TS. n i l , CAUSES M ONO OVO CO N TtO l AMD TO A I1 9 A I 0 0 O tLA T 0 1 OUO S U f P U I R S . A L L QUOTATIONS ARC tU S JC C T TO C N A N B I WITOOOT N O TICl* ~ m iir*i'*r' rVaT>g- 'f r V . i .. CONFIDENTIAL PURSUANT TO THE IERARDI PROTECTIVE ORDER DATED JANUARY 7. 1991. October 1 1 , 195U Kps, Banda K. .Farr 2500 Wisconsin Avenue, N.W. Washington, D* C. Dear Mrs* F arr: We wish to thank you very much f o r the th ree copies of your second rep o rt covering the problem of yellow spots on Kent c ig a re tte paper. This is an extremely in te re s tin g and valuable re p o rt, and we greatly appreciate the e ffo rt which you have expended on the problem* Under separate cover we are sending you 12 samples of Kent ciga r e tte s in which the f i l t e r s have been tre a te d by various and sundry means to reduce the occurrence of asbestos mineral fib e r in the smoke. We w ill appreciate i t very much i f both you and Mrs. Revere w ill give these samples your usual good a tte n tio n and l e t us know as promptly as possible what, i f anything, has been accomplished* The samples as you w ill observe are labeled from 1 to 12' We were sorry to hear th a t Mrs. Reve ra 's mother has been i l l and we t r u s t th a t she i s making a sa tis fa c to ry recovery* Very tru ly yours, P. LOHILLARD COKPAHI H 3P :ics H. B. Parmele, Fh.D* D irector of Research C W* V-i -0* c__r> hj LABOR: Steel Showdown.. _ --put a new note in retailing. Everything from "persoTilltl"policy to white sales, lie felt, had to be based oh thinking and in tellect. A harried ad writer complained after being quizzed by Weil on her ad The eleventh hciur in the steel dispute vertising theories: "Nothing like that ever struck tins week. Barring a last-minute happened to me before . . . The more he settlement or extension of their strike asked, the less I knew.'' deadline, which the Wage Stabilization Earlier in the game Weil trained for board had already requested, 650,000 the Macy job at L. Bamberger & Co., the members of Phil Murrays CiO Steel store then owned by the Strauses at workers would be hitting the bricks after Newark. His big idea there, which, failed midnight Sunday; T he reason: steel com to come of:: tc lure .Mortimer J. Adler of panies were ' not lik e ly 'to gran: the Creat Books fame away from the Univer union's demand for ISJt-cerit hourly in sity o: Chicago to become .Bamberger's creases by th e n ,: h o ' matter what the vice president in charge of "thinking." M'SB recommended.'A special panel last When offered the Macy post. Wei! was week indicated that the- board might advised by his doctor to turn it down. He approve anything from 2 to 23Ji-cents an had already had two iicart attacks which hour. Meamvniie/' steelmen .were .pre would have killed many another man. pared to bank the furnaces. ' " But Weil, determined to live and enjoy a full life, refused to heed the warning. Struck Rails Last week, 44-ycar-old Bob Weil sud denly resigned his Macy presidency in Until tiie long-drawn-out dispute be favor of Cousin Jack, top man in the tween the railroads and three operating parent organization. Weil, however, was unions was settled, .the country could staying on as vice president of R. H. Macy expect just what it got last we^k. Be & Co. With the competition in retail sales tween Buffalo and Chicago, on the New lightening up and calling for more stren York Central, engineers, firemen, and uous effort from retailing leaders. Weil conductors quit work, their patience at preferred to walk out o! a hot spot before an end ( N ewsweek, March 17). they carried him out. Alter tnree days, toe justice Depart ment sought a temporary strike injunction in Federal court in Cleveland. It was CIGARETTES: . New Filter Entry quickly granted, and the three unions involved--the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, the Brotherhood of Locomo- The row over the merits and demerits live rirem en .arid. Enghiemen, and the of tobacco has been raging for years. One Order of Railway Conductors--began to doctor claimed that "the infant born of a round ujnheh'-workei> . . mother who is a. cigarette, addict, is ccr- Tlie "railroad 'workers, had.':).i:jd piebiy - iiivto be a defective." Another insisted of time to develop frayed tempers*. Far almost three years, their petitions^ foq a_ wage raise .and a 40-liour \veekj, havq been kicking around in the "legal -tiln^les) . of the Railway Labor'YAct.'iikLiddUkui', '' /Jiffie jciads'.aiid the unioiis `Tfayi been at bitter -.o'ddsvpver ,certain' working rules, especially "those -prescribing .how many mile's nnd.ihpufs. each worker 'can put in. v Last \veek',^ft.eV*ihc.,;ret_uni to'w ork, a Settlement .seemed <ho nearer -thaii lever. ( sudi babi?Tdcvclop a tolerance to -J h.,.iHinc before they arc bom." ' ! T o top-.it. oil,_ the American Medica! Association journal has said that "from a psychological.point of view . . .'moie can bo said in behalf of smoking as a ionn nf escape from leiisinn (lew against it ' 1 lie average American is thus kept constantly aware ol "dangerous ims am: nicotine.' To capitalize nn this, some uf t h e /Small cigarette firms have turned imi filtered smokes, designed lo cui down tnese "impurities." ^ Thus week one of lue enunfri s "hij five" cigarette makers, the P. Lorillard Co., manufacturers o: Old CumU. entered the filici od field. Lorilhml ini induced i new standard-size filtered cigarette, named Kent-after Loriliard's ]>i evident, Herbert A. Kcnt-at oi> cents a pack. (Viceroys sell for 20 cents; Parliamomi, Pireatlillvs.-and DuMauriers. fui 32 ornis i The biggest news in Kents, said Lorillard, is ilio natine nf ilio filici. Calieri Mieronite. it contains a s a i d mineral which is supposed to remove Gl).T per cent of tars anti nicotine. The mineral ingredient was discovered in Africa by the Cevnians. who used it in their gas masks- during llie last wa r . In 1943, U.S. troops captured some of the masks and chemists set to work to figuie out what was in them. It took about 3 year. Then the mineral was incorporated in American gas masks. Later it wai passed on to the Atomic Energy Commis sion, which now uses it to filler radio- , active'gases from the air in its. plants. j T he new smokes will lie introduced first in New York. Chicago, and Los Angeles. -Lorillard hopes to reach -oa-_ tional dislribCitioii'l>y"ilnc"eml offlic year.