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UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
SCHOOL OF CHEMISTRY
MINNEAPOLIS
OFFICE OF THE DEAN
RECEIV:
June 20, 1928
JUN 23 1928
Mr. H. H. Barker,
United States Radium Corporation,
535 Pearl Street,
New York City
Dear Barker:
Just before receiving your letter of June 5th I
saw from the newspapers that the suits against your company
had been settled by agreement. Shortly after I wrote you
last that no publicity had appeared in the newspapers here,
various articles began to appear which kept up until the
time of the settlement.
I suppose your next denger will be the filing
of other similar suits. Dr. Burnam was here last week at
the meeting of the Medical Association. In discussing your
cases he stated his belief to be that the effects were due
to zine sulfide rather than to radium. He did not lay much
weight on the evidence of the New Jersey zinc because they
have not dealt with the sulfide but rather with metallic
vapors.
I trust that the Insurence Companies bore a suf-
ficient part of your damages ( I assume that they entered into
the agreement and took some share, if not all of the liability).
With best regards to Mr. Lee,
Sincerely yours,
S. C. hind
S. C. Lind,
Director.
SCL/CS
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