perfectly straight, beautifully paullingished, unvarying in its surface. they put it in tissue paper, in a wooden box, sent it across to germany. then, just before the war broke out, the germans responded. by sending back a box, which the people in torrington opened and found in the tissue paper an identical steel rod, same inlength, same diameter, same brilliant polishing same straightness, and they thought t they copied us and they noticed horror there had been a hole bored down the center of the tube. they were aghast, how could that be possible that could be done? and then a war broke out and all correspondence between torrington and germany broke down, until 1945, both countries served the war. the two boss said had lunch together and ruefully the american said, i still can't get over how you bored that hole in thats steel rod that you made o brilliantly. we were embarrassed, it was horrible. and the german said well that's the reason i've come to see you because in fact we cheated. we drew the hole first of all in a block of steal and then machined a

it was pretty much unvarying. you see her during her ceremonial role as first lady and she has never smiling. almost never smiling. she especially hated movie cameras but she was always in dark clothing and she were grays and browns and she did that for a reason. she did not want press attention. she knew that if she wore something very plain and similar to what she wore the last time that reporters would have nothing to say about her. in contrast is mrs. eisenhower. she had lived in europe and been the wife of a five star general but who thought of herself as a neighbor and really was in many ways neighborly. she cut of course, helps unwittingly to make pink the most popular color according to the color institute at the time in textiles and homes and refrigerators and tiles and spatulas. everything was being made in first lady pink. what she ended up doing, also unwittingly is generating a miniboom in the economies of specialty markets of accessories. for example, her inaugural ground had these brilliant sparkles

hard and produced the steel rod, a 16th of an inch in diameter, perfectly straight and polished, unvarying, put in tissue paper and a wooden box, sent across to germany. then, just before the war broke out the germans responded by sending back a box which people in torrington opened and found in tissue paper identical steel rod, same diameter, same straightness and then they noticed their horror that in fact a whole was boarded down the center of the tube and they were aghast. how is that possible? the war broke out and correspondence broke down until the 1945 those companies survived the war and the managing director of the german company came over to america and came to torrington in the two bosses had lunch together and ruefully americans set i can't get over how you board that whole in that steel rod. we were embarrassed, it was horrible and the germans said that is the reason i came to see you because in fact we cheated. we drew the whole in the block of steel and then machined around it which was an easy thing to do. what you did was the most perfect thing we simply cheated which is