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    "ocrText": "Page -7-\npossessed was sufficient when mized with our luminous material to supply our\nmaximum force of operators (approximately 200) for a period in excess of 6 months.\nIt may be well to point out that prior to 1919 there was reported in the literature\ncases of over-exposure of radium on patients but never any indication of injury\nto people applying or menufacturing same.\nMr. Roeder can substantiate\nTobron\n17.\nSochocky resigned and left the Corporation May 24,1921. At this time he was\nPresident, and in charge of operations at Orange. Since 1917, he had been techni-\ncal director at Orange, and had charge of all development and operations. If he\nknew of any danger it was his duty to correct it, and he had the authority to do so\nwithout consulting anyone. He developed water adhesive, and for years it was made\nby him or in his laboratory or under his personal supervision. He never raised\nthe question of danger, or endeavored to restrain the use of water adhesive, with\neither Mr. A. Roeder, then Treasurer and MgT. of the Corporation, or Mr. Redmond\nCross, Chairman of the Board or Mr. W. H. Dey, who worked for Sochocky, and was in\ncharge of the Mechanical and Application Departments of the business.\nSochocity\nleft the Corporation, not on account of the protest claimed, but entiraly different\nreasons.\nHe\nimmediately\nstarted\na\ncompetitive\nconcern\nJmown\nas\nthe\nGeneral\nRadium\nCo.\nwith\noffices\nat\n149\nBroadway,\nand\npresumably\nmanufactured\nluminous\nmaterial\nunder the same formulae as used at our plant. He sold material to the Ansonia\nClock Co. and the Pádneer Instrument Co.t both located in Brooklyn. Responsible\npersons will so testify. He supplied them both oil and water adhesives similar\nto that manufactured by us during his connection with the Corporation, without\ndiving them any indication that there might be danger connected with the use of\nluminous material.\nThis can be substantiated by responsible people connected\nwith the Ansonía Olodic Co. who state that they vere unaware that there was any\npossible danger connected with this type of work until about the time articles\nappeared in the press (early 1925), they immediately communicated with US. and\nwe advised as to the steps which we had taken along these lines, especially with\nreference to the work which Dr. Flinn had done, and recommended that their employes\nbe examined by Dr. Flinn for any possible trouble that might be present among\ntheir employes or any latent possibilities of same.\nRepresentative from Ansonia, Dey,Mr. Roeder.Mr.Corss,lr.Viedt.\n18.\nLead screens were not used in the Laboratories of the Corporation, even where\nlarge quantities of Radium Element in concentrated form was handled, until the\nemployment of Dr. Edwin D. Leman, as Chief Chemist in Nov. 1920, who insisted on\nusing screens, altho Bochocky had been the Technical Director of the Corporation\nsince ite formation. At the request of Dr. Leman screens were constructed in\naccordance with his specification. Sochocky cooperating with Wr. Leman in this\nwork, although there were no screens constructed for Sochocky himself. Sochocky"
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