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1 A You know they used to weave asbestos.
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2 Q Right.
3 A They ran cotton yarns through it and all
4 kinds of things and those didn't have any strength and
5 they took a lot of doing, but they made mittens that
6 you could pick up a hot plate or hot piece of steel or
7 something 8 And the whole big thing I remember when I
9 was a kid , the nickelodeon in our town, when the show
10 was over, the curtain came down and said asbestos and
11 that was supposed to save us.
12 Q From a fire?
13 A Fire resistant.
14 Q So if the movie theater caught fire, at 15 least the screen wouldn't burn?
16 A Well, it would keep it behind the screen and
17 wouldn't come out and burn the audience. That's when
18 nickelodeon cost a nickel.
19 BY MR. SMITH:
20 Q Owens-Corning was investigating fiberglass
21 textile from the 1940s?