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When asked to explain her own work, Dr. Hamilton said that she spends half of each year teaching and the other half visiting, inspecting, and suggesting improvements for factories. "My work deals mostly with industrial poisons, though I am now studying the effects of silica containing dust, which is not actually a poison but injures the lungs to such an extent that they are susceptible to tuberculosis germs...
Candidate Coxey, 74, operates the Coxey Silica Sand Co. of Massillon, Ohio. He is also interested in the oil business in Oklahoma. Employes know him as an entertaining person...
...grind through the rock with drills. All day the air is filled with minute particles of stone, deadly dangerous dust is sucked into human lungs with every breath. The dust varies according to the stone, but wherever there is quartz, flint, ganister, sandstone, granite, there silica particles lead all the rest. These tiny glasslike fragments do not dissolve in the moisture of the nasal passages. Sharp-edged, insoluble, they penetrate the lungs, enter the cells. The crowded cells clump together. In an effort to protect the body, fibres begin to grow around the "clumps." Gradually the lungs choke up with...
...silicosis. These places have their mines and quarries, New York has its blasted tunnels. The growth of fibres around the cell "clumps" is in the nature of a healing process. If the irritation were stopped at this stage the lungs would heal. It is the increasing accumulation of silica particles and the continued growth of fibres that finally cause death. Perhaps the present agitation will move the New York State Legislature to pass the compensation bill it has neglected for four years. The Board of Transportation at any rate is eager to do its immediate utmost. Said deputy chief engineer...
...plumped bricks down to form the stringer courses of a 500-foot surface tunnel; pipe fitters twirled threads onto gas lines with their tap-&-die threader; freight gondolas dumped clay and ganister-Harbison-Walker, $36,000,000 brickmaking corporation, was having constructed a new type of kiln to burn silica brick. Corporation President J. E. Lewis had heard of the kiln operating at Dusseldorf, Germany, and after a talk with his Board Chairman H. W. Croft in their Pittsburgh offices had hurried to Dusseldorf to see the kiln in action. He liked it; secured the U. S. rights...