interesting and helpful and which On another page in the same issue would call to their attention the many is an account of the growing use of ways in which lead is being used and the then newly developed tetraethyl can be used to accomplish both the lead treatment of gasoline, citing an routine and special objectives of their increase in the amount of lead used work, SS e are encouraged bv the for this purpose from 650 tons in numerous responses we have received 1927 to an estimated 4.000 tons in to believe that we have been success 1930.

L6: Lead Arsenate: Lead Compounds not specially provided for.

A reduced tariff might permit a large part of these impor tations, if not all, to continue after the war, thus replacing a major market for domestic lead. (3) If it is desired to increase foreign production of other commodities such as food and rubber, which are vitally needed for our war requirements, we main tain that our "trading" position is obviously better if we leave in the hands of the proper Governmental departments the purchasing negotiations for lead. (4) Lead is a war material, needed in munitions, submarine, tank, and other storage batteries, signal corps cables, solder, bearing metals, degaussing cable, red lead, tetraethyl lead for gasoline and many other indispensable war uses.

We had been working on the problem of tetraethyl lead for some years'/'and we had made some progress toward the understanding of ;this problem.

\ni acre important as our mires be -oxc progressively exhausted* But the :act remains that the postwar demand for lead has out stripped the ability of the domestic mine* to meet it alone* Jbu will note that Z have eonfined this analysis so far to only throe uses of lead* 1 have not given any consideration to other large uses such es white lead, which can consume around 75,000 to 100,000 tons of lead a year, red lead, lead for tho chealoal construction industry* lead In ammu nition, foil, bearing metals* collapsible tubes* solder* type motel and a multitude of other uses* It is well to note that lead is in a most-enviable position In that it Is generally indispensable for all these applications* The following table will give you Jtt a glance the prewar and 1945 rate# of consumption and show how the 1 ,000*000 tons of lead a year is ueoounted fort COKSIVPIIOK LEAD iIn Short Tons) / 1940 _1945*# Storage Batteries Cable Covering Chamlealt Ammunition Tetraethyl Sheet and Pipe Solder Bearing Metal foil Collapsible Tubes Brass and Bronte Type Metal Terse Metal heights A Ballast Beat Treating Seals* Ralls, Hasher* Other and Unolasslfied 220,200 107,400 124.900(a) 64,000 44*000 C5,000(b) 24,000 14*000 23*500 w(e; 16,000 (oj (o) (j (o) 04,200 310,000 109,000 135*000 66,000 77,000 75,000 47,000 40*000 19*000 17*000 38,000 27,000 4,000 12,000 3*500 3,600 85,000 Total 762,000 1*068,000 A*V*i>*S* dstineted (a) Exclusive of oxides for storage batteries, (b) Includes lead used in chealoal oonstructi'S (o) Included in "Other and Unclassified'."

The disease in this case was lead poisoning contracted through continued work handling scrap metals, including lead.

Fairhall -- "Relative Toxicity of Lead and Some of Its Common Compounds."

The disease in this case was lead poisoning contracted through continued work handling scrap metals, including lead.

Fairhall -- "Relative Toxicity of Lead and Some of Its Common Compounds."

FILE NAME: Oil Industry and American Petroleum Institute (API) DATE: 1949 Nov 11 DOC#: API012 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Meeting Minutes & Attendee List - API Medical Advisory Committee For Information Only - Not For Publication AMERICAN PETROLEUM INSTITUTE MEDICAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE TENTH MEETING Minutes of Meeting November 11, 19^9 Stevens Hotel Chicago, Illinois %I MEMEERS PRESENT W.

This, as you will recognize, is not true of tetraethyl lead, but that is quite another matter.

For example, pallor, loss of appetite and general weakness occurring among several workers in a storage battery plant should suggest group exposure to dangerous concentrations of lead.

ST0852034 ABSTRACT OF THE LITERATURE OF INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE SUPPLEMENTARY TO HE JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE AND TOXICOLOGY VOLUME 30 JANUARY, 1948--NOVEMBER, 1948 PUBLISHED BY THE WILLIAMS & WILKINS COMPANY Baltimore, Md.

In his work, ^las never k&d possibility of exposure to tetraethyl lead except in finished gasoline.

Joseph Lead Co.