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1 bring in don't even know in 1996 that asbestos can
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2 cause mesothelioma.
3 Someone they are going to bring in doesn't
4 know that.
5 Back then, control the dust, and you will be
6 fine.
7 The Surgeon General, 1938, hey, everybody,
8 do you want to prevent yourself from getting the
9 disease? Control the dust. And that was the
10 thinking.
11 Owens-Corning in the 1940s, we are not
12 selling asbestos, we are selling fiberglass.
13 But something happened in the 1940s. World
14 War II. World War II changed a lot of things.
15 I wasn't around then. I love history, and I
16 read a lot about it. I read about it and a lot of
17 these cases.
18 World War II, they were building ships every
19 seven days. They were building ships every seven days
20 at Sparrows Point.
21 The use of asbestos and shipbuilding