It is the major component in the bat teries that start our cars and it is in the gasoline that runs our cars.

To ouote from the report of the study, published In Public Health Bulletin 163, Treasure Department, United States Public Health Service, op. 109, 110, 1926, In the regions In which ethyl gasoline has been used to the greatest extent for a period of between two and three years no definite cases have been discovered of recognizable lead poisoning or other diseases resulting from the use of ethyl gasoline.

To quote from the report of the study, published In Public Health Bulletin I63, Treasure Department, United States Public Health Service, op. 109, 110, 1926, *In the regions In which ethyl gasoline has been used to the greatest extent for a period of between two and three years no definite cases have been discovered of recognizable lead poisoning or other diseases resulting from the use of ethyl gasoline.

Greenburg (1926) recommended medical removal if an employee developed clinical symptoms of poisoning, or if blood values for individual workers dropped 25 % or more.

Tremendous amounts of lead are used annually in insecticides and are added in the form of tetraethyl lead to gasoline used for motor fuel.

Not only are American lead prices reasonable but they have been far below the general average of commodity prices since 1926.

January 1926.

Almost every trade associated with America's emerging industrial empire -- foundry work and steel production, automobile and gasoline production, painting and battery making -- exposed workers to danger ous levels of this age-old poison.

While Zilo Is to be used in the same manner white lead it is NOT a lead substitute.

;iono after tunulecture connected with fluid handling and leaded gasoline now routs with our halos Dopartn.

A little later, Kehoe and Edgar expanded these experimental observations ira te the field of commercial distribution and use of leaded gasoline th under taking a study of the comparative lead exposure of unexposed and exposed garage mechanics, drivera of cars, and filling station attendants.

In running these tests, 11.5 grams of the clay were used in each case, 1220 cc. of the pressure distillate, which had a gasoline content of about 75 per cent, being charged.

It was nevertheless an interesting experiment and will no doubt lead to more productive efforts.

B y way of ju stific a tio n , I'd lik e to point out that w e have had no c a s e of lead poisoning among th ese people in the entire period of our a c tiv itie s, and only one claim for com pensation based on alleged lead absorption has com e to light in this period of tw enty-eight years sin ce we began in 1926 {the one claim w as obviously spurious and v/as denied).

That weans wore gasoline and wore lead.