As early as 1913, Alice Hamilton wrote that "the total prohibition for lead paint for use in interior work would do more than anything else to improve conditions in the painting trade."21 By the early 1930s, a consensus developed among specialists that lead paint posed a hazard to children.22 27 Robert Kehoe, medical director for the Ethyl Gasoline Corpo ration and director of the Kettering Laborato ries of the University of Cincinnati, perhaps the nation's leading expert on lead poisoning, concluded that "strenuous efforts must be devoted to eliminating lead from [children's] environment,"28 especially since safer alterna tives to lead, specifically titanium- and zincbased paints, existed throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The large red brick building in the picture's center foreground is where sodium, an essen tial element in the manufacture of tetraethyl lead and a versatile metal with many other present and future applications, is made by the electrolysis of salt.

Y. com;ofi'ne i)x, *crter) The story of safe handling of gasoline has been told over and over again.

Father, June Roshto, is a tetraethyl lead oper ator at the Baton Rouge Plant, and his mother is the former Jeannette Acosta, of Baton Rouge.

Chlorine 0.35 1.0 Chloronaphfhalenes 5 1105 Chlorodipbenyls 5 1.0 Chromic acid 1.0 0.1 Gasoline IOOO 1000 Glycols 25 Hydrochloric acid 10 Hydrocyanic acid 10 10 Hydrq^looric acid 3 3 Lead 1.5 1.5 Mercury 1.5 1.5 Methyl alcohol 100 200 Nitrogen oxides 10 10 Nitrobenzol 5.

The $ Oooupational Lead exposure o f f i l l i n g I s ta tio n a tte n d a n ts and Garage Mechanics Aeoronautical Researoh S ta ff of Ethyl Gasoline Corp.

You are probably ` .M l'v_ 'zy Chlorine Chlononaphthalenes Chlorodiphenyls Chromic acid Gasoline Glycols Hydrochloric acid Hydrocyanic acid Hydrofluoric acid Lead Mercury Methyl alcohol Nitrogen oxides (Nitrobenzol Ozone Phosgene 0.35 1000 25 10 3 100 10 1.0 1000 10 10 3 200 10 5, 1 1 5 1 to5 5 1.0 10 0.1 1.5 1.5 1.5 1.5 rcmarkoblc reports on in. zoning which appeared in : Mnssachusetts State De- on lu-iuo!

v-4- #* INDEX "ETHYL NEWS" 1944 AUTOMOTIVE Factors Affecting the Antiknock Performance of Postwar Gasoline.............

LIA37989 I 3 The next largest use of lead is that involved in the manufacture of tetraethyl lead tor use in gasoline.

The written report was published in 1926. -- I think the Surgeon-deneral in his report asked for an appropriation from Congress in order to carry on experiments, q That is quite true; hut they did issue a report in 1926.

DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS EDGAR M.

ST08525I I MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL INDUSTRIAL HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD REPORT No. 80 TOXICITY OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIC SOLVENTS SUMMARIES OF PUBLISHED WORK Compiled by Ethel Browning under die direction of the Committee on The Toxicity of Industrial Solvents Crown Copyright Reserved LONDON HIS MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE 1937 u t 6.1 G, 78 ft cifo2 THE BOARD ST08525l2 E.

Gasoline is used as a solvent for the rubber.

Gasoline is used as a solvent for the rubber.

Gasoline is used as a solvent for the rubber* The mixing is accom plished in a vith rotating paddles.