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_-" Telephons conversation betvmen Dr. Joe vi. Howland, University o f xochestSr and Dr. Albert He Holland, Jr., Medical Advisor, J a n u q 9, 1948. Say, Joe, you know there has been this change i n the contractor status dapm here a t Clinton Labs, which of course has been severely mf lect ed on morale, etch so that getting this stuff buried i s temporarily j u s t one of those things that got caught i n the 1d11. I n fact, I wrote you a note yesterday, just wondering i f you were still there o r someplace else, justa question ofa casual cannerrt. Ijust thought that you don't have it i n mind but it is one o f those Verve got stuff stuck off at one side to s it amund fora long tine and I can see that as soon as you get affairs in order we will be happy about it, -Do you suppose you could have your secretary forward me a detailed inventory of what you have? I'm just like you am ina certain position that ,,4 Very mell ; we have tm beryllium cases here inthe Metabolism ?krd right at the pmsent time. lot of interesting stuff. In fhct vm had our mdidstaff around here a *ole hour on pulmomry granulanatosis and we are getting I& lot oC stuff right now on figure out a may t o - . runofion program, as was suggested a t Saranac. pfetve done alot respiration.' with the treadmill. I'm got sane orders infor respirators and equip ent which I'm going to use i n the metabolism experiments. I have a few ideas on this, that and &&e other.... You don't want a job do you? Not right now. !!hfrom Cleveland. Tle are doing a Things seem t o be going along fairly well. Incidentally, I'm got my first installment, at least I got part o f my 'fmnsion"coning back, and If o eat to save the pullman slips, and they didn't corresFond tothe coach fare. goiq 'to rrait until I get the vrhole sale end see if there is enough difference t o bother about. No doubt there will be. Italk with him occasionally ana he seems t o be i n hot water all the I suppose your mjor headache i s a7ray naw--out a t %.&on? I think things are beginning to st q sh ken out a little better. it has been quite a mss. Agnat deal o f dissatisfaCH.cn, people
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Yes, he is still hsre but we am haviw> considerable difficulty with him. I hear Harding w & down t o Los Alamos as head of their Industrial I think she isa prefAy good gal-that isI think she has her points anyway;as t o her clinical ability I'm not so sure but I think she i s a pretty good data gatherer and she will probably do as good a-job as anybody they could get. I don't h o v how it will wodc -out, but it is a development A co-le of things have cane up Joe. One, do you do radon Yes, m are sending them to Enns at the present time thru Bernie. We have shifted that whole service dawn t o Bernie and I think Ferrg i n Bernie's office is Imrndling it a t the present time, Bght n m AB haw an experimental setup going i n which w e could do alot better job on low amounts. File a r e testing that and it ought t o b e ready In about 6 weeks I would 'jpess, obtaining an immediate sample is t o send it t o Evans. bmath bulbs instntctions f o r taking the sample. Right nom t h e best netthod of The difficulty is that we don't have tine t o do all that. sonething that has ocourrced and i f any breath san?les 8m to be colleoted they should probably be taken sometime today. If you can get a clean glass reservoir o f about a liter mpa city or a little bigger and ham the individual bda the into that liter about 10 time s in an area. completely away frm any radon that i s around. Seal tightly, That i s why we use the glass G. Emtns, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, &ss. and he w i l l et it within 24 hours. a telegram telling him why standard equipnent couldn't be used. Send a copy o f that t o Beiaie i n New York, is that;t h e glass mst be radon free and ought t o breathe through s w sort o f cotton o r glass mol filter so that if tbre is any Send send it i n a receptaole ....abotrt 10 fbll flasks and then seal it and send toEms. He will get it i n 48 hours. it ages so muoh tht it makes it difficult to read. i3ox up and send by air express t o Robley Cover that by a phone call o r The one important thing One other thing which corns up, What do youl.cnoor about 'CrhiS case ? Vasn't that one of the cases that,..,. That was one of the cases t'mt Tnedel'i iwi 1- p u t "49" in. Dwi'ght Clark whet- I was up in ihicago and he said the last he heard this boy was practically completely blind, I think it is about tirm me dig it up, Iwas talking ivitn I hadn't heard anythirg. The last I saw >right vas - hen we -re discharged fmm the Army and he haiuz't heard any chi q from .
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,_ Hollan2: I saw Dwight on Dec. 22nd when I was up casually chatting and he wanted to know when I heard that of course that it was what was new on we were just I think the fellow had senile eat a rao tin both eyes, asI remember. I don't knoq we are i n the Ijust wondered if you had any additional back gdi dom tion. process of getting the f'ile out m w and All I know is how much he got, He got 4.7 on- a day, wM.ch w a s 49.... 'ifell, we -ai11 get it out and find out where he is and what he i6 doing Louie Hemplemazin .....has medical results on him. most complete nrolic-up msu lts, because they did all fAe chemical analysis out there...Mght shulci have the mst of the informa3.on. and I'll let you Icnow.