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BEST WALL GYPSUM COMPANY GYPSUM WALLBOARD MANUAL 1965 EDITION Section 5 Sub-Section D TILE BACKER BOARD Bestwall Tile Backer is the name of the new product released by Bestwall to compete with U.S.G.'

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Summary ................................................................................................................................... 1 - 2 Growth of sales from new products .................................................................... 3 Growth of profits from new products .................................. *.......................... 4 Sales growth of 1/2" and 5/8" Firestop ........................................................ 5 12 months market performance of new products ......................................... 6 6 months market performance of new products ............................................ 7 Budgeted distribution of 1968 research expenditures ......................... 8 New product section ...................................................................................................... 9 - 11 Product improvement section .................................................................................. 12 - 14 Sales service section ................................................................................................. 15 - 16 Gypsum Association - ASTM section .................................................................. 17 Patent section .................................................................................................................. 18 SGP 0015035 SUMMARY Facts and Figures This is our first semi-annual report since we moved into our new Tigard Research headquarters.

r is a follow-up on thirty-eight workers exposed from 1 to 24 years to average is Payoncentrationsgenerally between 5 and 50 ppm. but as highas 90 (peak of 140) case of one worker.

FILE NAME: Asbestos Cement Pipe and Sheet (ACPS) DATE: 1965 Nov 1 DOC#: ACPS067 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Memo - Asbestos and Health with Newspaper Article I J riUMMtiai M 1st November 196} Mr.

FILE NAME Brakes BRK DATE 1963 June 15 DOC BRK019 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Journal Article - Pulmonary Asbestosis - African Medical Journal uth African Medical e Town 15 June 1963 Journal : Afrikaanse Tydskrif vir Geneeskunde Volume 37 No. 24 Deel 37 Kaapstad 15 Junie 1963 EDITORIAL : VAN DIE REDAKSIE PULMONARY ASBESTOSIS Il the pneumoconioses or dust diseases asbestosis would ar to be the most serious from many points of view in follow a relatively short exposure instead ears as in silicosis while the morbidity rate as rmined by radiological means has been much re- ed by measures to lessen the inhalation of asbestos in factories bestos workers in those with e reduction in it can still be very 44-5 with 20 or more years exposure and 10-15 years exposure frequency of pulmonary tuberculosis e post era and the equally striking increase in cancer in most countries makes it difficult to assess ncreased liability of present sufferers from asbes- to these two complications Clearly the data obtained or more years ago have little validity now while chial carcinoma has such a range of frequency in rent countries that conclusions based on world aver- are hardly acceptable In the case of pulmonary tuber- sis the British figure for the association of this disease fatal cases of asbestosis in the years 1932 was 4. while in the same period the figure was 57.1 in cases of silicosis But in one part of Germany sen more recent findings published in 1960 show that culosis as a complication of silicosis was still very while the association with asbestosis only % little more than twice the tuberculosis figure he whole population in that region.

FILE NAME: National Gypsum (NG) DATE: 1962 Sept 13 DOC#: NG008 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Air Hygiene and Manufacturing Committee Meeting Minutes with Attendee List Attending: J.

FILE NAME: Neighborhood Exposures (NE) DATE: 1962 DOC#: NE022 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Medical Journal Article - Environmental and Occupational Cancer Hazards - See Pgs. 795-797 ' : : .N...e..Hilyfe, "i i - - i r4 '--v`^ S' . ,'' '` .' ; . (` .' - -. '' - .- . .. v.: ' ,\ - ` ,r- '.

FILE NAME: Neighborhood Exposures (NE) DATE: 1967 DOC#: NE020 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Medical Journal Article - Mesothelioma and Asbestos Exposure Mesothelioma and Asbestos Exposure Jan Lieben, MD, and Harry Pistawka, MDt Harrisburg, Pa IT H IN the past five years several arti cles have called attention to the association ctween mesotheliomas of the pleura and critoneum with asbestos exposure.1--' Wagner et al4 studied 33 cases of meso thelioma.

FILE NAME: Neighborhood Exposures (NE) DATE: 1967 DOC#: NE023 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Mesothelioma and Its Association With Asbestosis U m a 24 <;y rrx?

FILE NAME: Newport News (NN) DATE: 1964 DOC#: NN004 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Government Book Excerpt I OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES ; A Guide To Their Recognition i 3 5 Rewritten and Enlarged Edition of Occupation Hazards and Diagnostic Signs W.

FILE NAME: Newspaper & Magazine Articles (NMA) DATE: 1962 Jan DOC#: NMA028 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Trade Magazine Article - On the Job Cancer: The Killer They Won't Track Down i s r fg i* m - m IlS sS II m m J A t-i U A ft f 331 S%V - .