Once-common building material

Usage examples of asbestos.

In 1948, Herbert Levine developed an inexpensive, lightweight, spray-on insulation composed of asbestos and rock wool, which played a key part in the postwar office-tower construction boom.

May, 2002, giving the gist of the above and also commenting that it was all a result of baseless hysteria, and there had never been a shred of evidence that insulating buildings with asbestos was harmful to health.

By 1978 the ensuing misrepresentations and exaggerations formed the basis of an OSHA report that predicted 58,000 to 73,000 cancer deaths each year from asbestos, on the basis of which the government upped its estimate of industry-related cancers from 2 percent to 40 percent.

In the late 1980s, the EPA director involved became president of one of the largest asbestos abatement companies in the United States.

A6, reports, however, that the scourge of asbestos litigation has now hit Union Carbide.

At last he gripped it and twisted asbestos and rubber into one tight mass, which he held firmly with both hands.

He entered the next cellar and picked his way through a tumbled mass of ceiling that threw up sparks as his asbestos boots encountered it.

Six in all, they were garbed in puffy suits of asbestos, with grimy faces glaring through the fronts of their helmets.

Instead of offering fight, he turned and scurried after the Salamanders, who had formed a two-man file, still dashing clumsily, handicapped in their asbestos suits.

They found the bodies of the four dead Salamanders, still clad in their asbestos suits.

There were no wires overhead--no sound of life or movement except, here and there, there passed slowly to and fro human figures dressed in the same asbestos clothes as my acquaintance, with the same hairless faces, and the same look of infinite age upon them.

Then I turned and looked again at the grey desolation of the street with the asbestos figures moving here and there.

Chemical Food came first: that cut off almost one-third of the work, and then came Asbestos Clothes.

I was about to launch into one of my old-time harangues about the sheer vanity of decorative dress, when my eye rested on the moving figures in asbestos, and I stopped.

She appointed lobbyists fresh from their hitches with paper, asbestos, chemical, and oil companies to run each of the principal agency departments.