Word: goodrich
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Evidence of vinyl chloride's toxicity has been around for years. Production of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) was begun in 1938 by B.F. Goodrich Co. That year experiments showed that the vinyl chloride gas used at the plant was dangerous to animals. A 1949 Russian study showed that vinyl chloride (VC) caused nonmalignant liver damage in 15 of 48 workers exposed to the chemical; surveys in other European countries over the next decade and a half confirmed the connection. In 1966 and 1967 British scientists examining PVC workers reported a high incidence of acro-osteolysis, a condition partially characterized...
...lungs, skin and bones of rats exposed to high concentrations of the gas. The link was strengthened in 1973 when researchers from Bonn University found evidence of liver damage in 19 out of 20 PVC workers at a single plant. The bombshell really burst early this year when B.F. Goodrich Co. reported that three men who worked with VC in its Louisville, Ky., plastics plant had died of angiosarcoma of the liver since 1971. Since then doctors have identified nine more cases of the cancer in the U.S., one in Great Britain and another in Norway...
Suggested sites include the Charlestown Navy Yard, the old B.F. Goodrich Plant in Watertown, and the knoll behind the Federal Records Center in Waltham. Construction is now planned for the site of the old MBTA yards across from Eliot House...
...playoffs, defense becomes decisive. Scoring is low and hard earned. The weak defensive players get burned. Two years ago in the NBA finals, the Lakers destroyed the Knicks 4 games to 1 by isolating Gail Goodrich on Earl Monroe. Monroe's weak knees slowed up his defense and Goodrich gobbled him up for better than 25 points a game...
...Doctors have long suspected that industrial exposure to vinyl chloride, a plastic substance, is dangerous. Their suspicions were further aroused recently when abnormalities were discovered in the livers of a number of workers in a B.F. Goodrich Co. chemical plant in Louisville, Ky., and it was found that four of the men had a malignancy called angiosarcoma of the liver. Last week the cancer was discovered in two more of the employees and confirmed as a contributing cause of death in an employee of a West Virginia plant. Although the action comes too late to save the workers who have...