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1 you recall that Owens-Corning tried to point out to Page 1076 2 these asbestos workers the fact that fiberglass 3 pipecovering would not cause any lung diseases? 4 A Right, and to my knowledge, never did. 5 Q And it was a strong selling point for Owens- 6 Corning that the fiberglass pipecovering didn't cause 1 7 lung disease and that is what you tried to emphasize? j 8 A And its temperature characteristics and 9 other things. High temperature material glass was. 10 Q Was that right? 11 A Glass was high temperature, you know. 12 Q Am I correct that one of your selling points 13 for the fiberglass pipecovering was that it didn't 14 cause lung disease? 15 A Well, going back a little bit, we were very j 16 careful to -- any time we changed the fiber size or j 17 anything else, to have it checked, tested, and it was 18 never ever proven or ever even further even suspected 19 that you could breathe it, that you couldn't inhale it 20 and didn't, and we had no complaints. 21 Q So in the 1940s, then, as a company, Owens-