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RECEIV
University of Minnesota
DEC 5 1927
School of Chemistry
Minneapolis
Dec. 3, 1927
OFFICE OF THE DEAN
RADIUM LUMINOUS
MATERIAL CORP.
Dr. Howard H. Barker,
United States Radium Corporation
535 Pearl Street, New York:
My dear Barker;
In reply to your letter of Dec. 1, I regret to learn that your
damage suits have not been settled out of court.
In regard to the anticipation of injury to persons painting watch
dials, the first that I ever heard of such a thing were the stories that began
to appear in the newspapers with reference to the reported experiences of your
company. You will have these dates. They must have been subsequent to 1924.
Prior to that time I should have thought that the small quantities
and great dilutions which they were handling would not be dangerous.
Our ex-
perience with much larger quantities were never harmful as far as we knew. My
only burns were accidental beta ray burns from very large and concentrated quan-
tities of radium. I have been working around and with radium and had others
around me doing the same almost continuously for more than twelve years with no
bad results, though we did very little handling of Ra paints.
With reference to especial danger from meso-thorium I have formed no
opinion and would want to talk it over before forming one. I was planning to make
a trip to Washington the week before Christmas and could arrange to come to New York
for a day if you wished. If I were certain you would need me in Newark in January
I would prefer to make one trip of the whole thing and could probably put off my
Washington trip until that time. However that is not essential at all.
With best regards, sincerely yours,
A.C. Lindi
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