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Page 276 1 skyrocketed because what was happening during the '40s 2 is that these ships were driven by steam and they 3 needed asbestos pipecovering, so people wouldn't get 4 burned. They are up to 1200, 1800 degrees. It would 5 cook you alive. 6 Also what was happening in the Pacific is 7 that kamikazes were coming down and hitting ships and 8 blowing up and burning people to death. 9 What they required is that they had asbestos 10 in each compartment so when the kamikaze hit, it would 11 stop the fire. 12 The government said wait a second, there can 13 be a problem with this asbestos because we know from 14 the '30s, let's do a study. 15 The study was done in the 1940s, and what 16 they were looking at is people who installed asbestos17 containing pipecovering. Not this kind of 18 pipecovering, because this is the hard rigid type of 19 pipecovering. 20 Kaylo was a hard rigid pipecovering in the 21 '40s and '50s, but they had this old fluffy stuff.