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the post of Industrial Commissioner of the State of New York, because I never would have been allowed in the super-super hazardous part of those works, except as a public official with an obligation. There you have the most elaborate and most expensive kind of safety protection that's been developed by the company - certainly with the cooperation of the Labor Department, but not at the prodding of the Labor Department - for the protection of life and property. They are practically the same. The life of the President of the Company as well as the life of the lowest paid employee who works on the examination of film are all involved. One flash and they're all gone. They just can't have that one flash.

The result is that they frisk you no matter who you are. If the President of the United States went to look at the Eastman works, as well as the Industrial Commissioner, they would frisk him. They frisk you for matches and lighters. They frisk you for metal. They make you take off your belt, bracelets, odds and ends of metal around. You must take off your shoes. Those you take off outside. You put on a pair of slippers that they give you, which have no metal in them anywhere. They're just soft pads that you pad through on. Even though you have those you walk on ginger. The slightest spark caused by static can throw the whole works off.