Dear Bob: There has come up here in New York the matter of the distribution of EDTA in connection with its use in lead poisoning.

Halsey, Vice President in charge of the Division, had therefore decided that the plant would be shut down and arrangements made for disposing of all lead inventories, including lead in the plant's corroders and tanks, in anticipation that operations might not be resinned.

LIA19643 Mi LEAD INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION at UOUNOTO* AVtXUI NSW VOWC 17, N.

February 15, 195S SUBJECTI A.WUAL KTSHNO To Kanhtrt of tha Lead Industries Association!

Our preliminary thinking is that lead and mercury poisoning would be good subjects for this presenta tion, For this purpose we thought that illustrations by photographs of lead encephalitis or paralysis nay make good subjects for such a portrayal.

Manfred Bowditch Lead Industries Association 1*20 Lexington Avenue New York 17, N.

Just what our pre liminary observations will lead to is anyone's guess, but we shall see what we shall see.

Most men recover spontaneously vhen removed from exposure to lead, and without sequellae.

Considering the modesty of your request for tetraethyl lead, I should be disposed to ask the proper people in the Detroit Laboratories of Ethyl Corporation to send it to you.

Halsey, Vice President in charge of the Division, had therefore decided that the plant would be shut down and arrangements made for disposing of all lead inventories, including lead in the plant's corroders and tanks, in anticipation that operations might not be resinned.

Welch, Sstianal Lead Co.

D. 1504 East Clark Street - Telephone 488 CHARLES CITY, IOWA September 12,6 Standard Oil Company of Indiana Gentlemen, I need a small amount of Tetraethyl lead for some work I want to conductas user of Standard of Ind. for years I want to find out if I can get it from you or have to contact the Ethyl Corporation of America.

Lead AMD MW H.

Presently we are submitting samples of urine to be analyzed by the lead Dithiazone Method to a commercial Laboratory.

In the trade sales section, the exposure results on 45X Lead Silicate are interesting.