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FILE NAME Power Generation POW DATE 1989 June 28 DOC POW001 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION BC Notes to Ed Moody Ed Moody June 28 1989 The review of the trade literature of the power industry is done After visiting the stacks of the library of congress I selected Power Plant Engineering Power Engineering 1930-75 Power House Modern Power Engineering 1930-75 Southern Power Southern Power & Industry Southern Engineering 1930-67 The journals were filled with ads and articles on dust control respirators and ads for asbestos products which were photocopied My sense of it overall is that there was recognition of dust as a health hazard generally and a hazard to process equipment and an awareness that some dusts had been especially identified as harmful particularly silica However aside from Hendricks stuff in SP in the 40s asbestos escaped specific mention I've not had and would be time to examine this as carefully as I would have liked happy to discuss it with you after you've had a look