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FILE NAME Kent KNT DATE 1954 Feb 12 DOC KNT027 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Letter from P. Lorillard Company with Summation of Various Outside Research Projects for 1954 ara qa sslBMbas,, of fi*e ree NEW YORK OFFICE 119 W. 40TH ST INCORPORATED CIGARETTES OLD GOLD BRANCH 111 FIRST ST JERSEY CITY 2 N. J. February 12 1954 Mr. W. J. Halley President P. Lorillard Company New York New York Dear Mr. Halley In answer to your request we have finally put our house in order so to speak by preparing a summation of our various outside research projects for the year of 1954 A total amount of 120,00wa0s budgeted for this purpose can be broken down as follows This 1. ARMOUR RESEARCH FOUNDATION - 1954 Budget Contract attached This twelve month contract expires about the first of July Therefore if necessary or desirable it could be extended another six months and still be within the budgeted amount 15.000 2. JOHN A. KILLIAN - 1954 Budget Letter of agreement attached This is a continuing arrangement under a ninety day termination notice clause It includes a 500 per month retainer plus additional charges for additional work quaa s r qua- r- terly tests on the comparative filtering efficiency of competitive tipped brands 25,000 25,000 3. DR MORRIS FISHBEIN and others - 1954 Budget Letter of agreement attached This agreement is for 1954 a b and covers Dr. Fishbein's personal fee Completion by June first of work at Hektoen Institute stomach 50.000 25,000 25,000 12,500 80698 Ped wee Mek wemmre ae Wank ne me meine rete oe Nea NL Rema RE TTS PENA Pe TOE er eC*** * *** *** od Mr. W. J. Halley 2 February 12 1954 is c Dr. Fishbein to be paid 2,083.33 per month throughout the year of 1954 However for the first five months of the calendar year his check should be 4,583.33 per month 2500 of which he will transfer to the Hektoen Institute for completion of the stomach work by June first d By substracting items a and b from the total amount budgeted 50,000 12,500 remains for throat and cough studies in 1954. letters of agreement will be written for this work and we are now in the process of preparing one such letter to cover a project to be done by Dr. S. J. Pearlman at the Cook County Hospital in Chicago j FOSTER D. SNELL INC - 1954 Budget No contract is necessary as the work is on a job to job basis terminable at any time It covers quarterly tests of filtering efficiency on various competitive brands of tipped cigarettes DAMON RUNYON MEMORIAL FUND - 1954 Budget This is an outright contribution and one which is being held in abeyance for the time being 20,000 10,000 budgeted projects are listed as follows MRS ALTHEA REVERE - Budgeted Letter of agreement attached This covers work to be done for twelve months beginning February 1 1954 2,083.33 2,083.33 to be paid monthly Microscopical botanical and microchemical studies of tobaccanod smoke 80690989 808609609908998980690989 $ DR DAVID N. KENDALL - Budgeted No contract with Dr. Kendall seems necessary at this since the work is on a month to month basis and 80690989 time if he and his spectrophoto- 80690989 of a trial run nature to see meter can help us in our work At the present he is attempting to prove the absence of harmful fibers in Kent smoke For the time being we regard this project as almost like an operating expense of our own laboratory $ DR E. F. FULLAM - Budgeted A letter of agreement is being prepared although work on the project has actually started Dr. Fellam with his electron microscope has been employed to do one specific job for us namely confirm the absence of any harmful fibers in Kent smoke He estimates ten days to do the job 550. per month 100 per day ot cy uemeee tee tev ibeye Fe cme er re meres a eee ee serena cm batt ne SINS 8 Nam NE EA