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manufacturing preoeesce* the materials which rom gum are
particularly offensive tn thlo regard or et leeat so it .
would seem from a limited nusfoer of observations. Xn this
connection you mar bo interested in m artiole written some
time ago by ay associate Dr# Willard F* Maehle copy of which
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Fro what 1 hove said about thd task of danger la the handling of gasoline X would not have you boilers that we have discouraged in any ay file use or pro cautions originally,devised In connection with leaded gasoline* At present however the chief usefulness of a warning sign Is to prevent,the use of leaded gasoline in gasoline stoves and la lamps In which* for a variety of reasons It is an undesirable fuel# in so far as the sign aids in limiting the use of leaded gasoline for oleanlng purposes of all kinds It is also an ad* ventage for a variety of reasons Thus we hope the signs serve some useful purpose on the other hand 1 must point cut to you that the1instructions for the hshdling of leaded gasoline were suggested by the United States Publie Health servie# in the early period of the use ef this fuel# Although the Servie# had found only negative results in Its investigation It took the position that the period of _ of leaded gasoline to provide eertain evidence of Site barvlvfff'vnewtI
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