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FILE NAME Power Generation POW DATE 1989 Nov 11 DOC POW002 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION BC Notes to Paul Edholm to Paul Edholm from Barry Castleman Nov. 11 1989 A request for some from Scott Bickford 504-581-9065 He union with asbestos fairly consuming research has come in 338 Lafayette St. New Orleans LA 70130 represents members of the marine engineers diseases These men maintained the boilers and power plants on the steam ships of the merchant marine fleet in past decades This work entailed extensive contact with containing insulation Bickford is especially interested in the knowledge and actions of companies that sold boilers Combustion Engineering Babcock & Wilcox in addition to knowledge of asbestos insulation makers see attached list of firms from my book We are looking for two types of information 1 articles noting asbestos hazards in technical sources such companies would have been aware of on dust industrial hygiene occupational diseases respiratory protection workers compensation etc. and 2 advertisements by these companies wherein any implications of safety toxic asbestos etc. or acknowledgments of health hazards appear Be sure to include any ads of these companies which appear in the same issue of a journal in which health hazards from dusts such as asbestos are separately alluded to in any way The years of our interest are 1930-1970 and I want you to examine all issues of each of the publications of interest in that period The information on the enclosed list is incomplete and some may even be incorrect I have previously looked through a few power generation journals whose early Plant Engineering Power House and Southern names Power were Power Journal at call numbers around examine items 3-5 TJl.P. 8-10 As you can see 12-14 18 20-22 we want you to The last item handwritten by me refers to handbooks and texts on the nitty design gritty of power plant are easy to scan using operation and maintenance These tables of contents and indexes for subject headings such as those above asbestosis health disease silicosis to power merchant vessels etc. The steam engine systems used locomotives and stationery electric generating plants are basically similar We want to review the literature on such technology Also try to determine whether there is a source of abstracts on this technology short summaries of articles indexed by subject -- it'd be called Power Abstracts or something like that The abstracting publications have been a good source of references on asbestos hazards in other trades e.g. Ceramic Abstracts If you have questions or want to discuss this you want to take a reliable assistant to help ahead and do so It pays hr plus expenses please call If on this job go As usual copies of anything must be identifying journal issue cover pages title page whatever isn't evident as to source and So that means include and copyright pages or date on the face of the things you select for copying You'll do well to obtain a stack pass to go down and look at the years for which are available scan maybe locate texts index journals for their likely missed by using the card various journals usefulness and catalog subject If you see anything on the enclosed list that is especially highly unlikely to be worth searching just put it off for later and make me a note of your observations and impressions I have not seen these publications though I may come down to D.C. at some point in your investigation to have a look In the mean time I hope you can better prepare the way and narrow down the scope of matters that I'll have to decide I want to conserve my time and limit the For obvious reasons billing for it to a minimum so we can do the most complete job in the most economical way Though this is not an urgent job I'd like to see as prompt attention to it over the next month if that suits you Scott you Bickford is mailing an advance check for you to me We expect this may well ultimately take you over 100 hours to finish Make 2 copies of everything you select and mail us each one with your reports as you proceed You may obtain the assistance of Bickford's Washington D.C. office for making and mailing stuff to us phoning us etc. extra xerox copies Martzell Thomas & Bickford 2101 L St. NW Good luck call me anytime 785-9700