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FILE NAME: Owens Illinois (OWILL) DATE: 1939 Mar 8 DOC#: OWILL007 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Letter from Corning Glass Works to The Saranac Laboratory ornee or W .C.TCM Pt.Et.M .O. MeoicAL OiRicTon C C W orning lass orks CORNING, NEW YORK h Ma^ch 8 , 1939. Dr. Leroy U. Gardner, D irec to r, The Saranac Laboratory fo r th e Study o f T uberculosis, Saranac Lake, New York. Dear Doctor Gardner: At a meeting held a t Newark, Ohio l a s t month, a t which Hr, H irth .and o th e rs of the O w ens-Illinois Corporation were present . t.h p u b lic a tio n o f th e work, th a t you have done on fib e r g la s , was discussed* You w ill r e o a ll th a t, hen th e work was fin ish e d , Mr. H irth thought th a t due to previous le g a l com plications such p u b lic a tio n s would be improper. However, a f t e r going thoroughly over th e su b je c t, such opinion has been changed to where we th in k th a t such a re p o rt published in the Jo u rn al o f In d u s tr ia l Hygiene o r some o th e r s u ita b le iss u e may h elp to c l a r if y th e muddle th a t some people a re in regarding the hygienic fe a tu re s o f the product. I t was a ls o suggested by one o f th e laymen p re se n t, th a t, perhaps, a conclusion based in th e term s o f th e l a i t y might help to make th e re p o rt more understandable to them* I t was brought out a t th a t tim e th a t th e s o lu b ility of th e g lasses had changed in p hysical c h a r a c te r is tic s , since you did your work, so I am enclosing a copy of th e d u r a b ility o f g la s s e s , which we now use. I would lik e to hear from you on th is su b ject and i f you th in k i t pro p er, I w ill arrange to meet you some n ie ce , where you may possibly be going to a m eeting, or I w ill come to Saranac. Thanking you, I am WCTL Enc, Medical D irector. 013647