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Originally Posted by Tango589 (Post 2320730)

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Whatever inflates your ego and floats yer boat(when you become the boat:o) BBY!:O: During World War II the U.S. aviators and the Royal Air Force servicemen had available to them a vital piece of American-made equipment for emergencies that had only been in use for a few years: an inflatable (Mae West) life preserver, courtesy of a man named Peter Markus (1885-1973). Markus developed his invention in the 1920s and received a patent on it in 1928; in 1930 and 1931 he patented some minor changes to the vest.
Markus came up with the invention when he was living in Minnesota. :arrgh!:(Where women are frigid-the winters long- but you can dream-of Mae, eat spam and drink Hamm's BBY) He was a merchant in the area who loved to boat and fish, and he was attuned to the fact that boaters and fishermen sometimes went overboard and drowned because they refused to wear the life vests in use at that time. And talk about Minnesota Nice!:doh: During the war, Congress passed an “Excess Profits” tax on earnings from sales to the military during wartime, and in support of the government, Markus cancelled his patent rights for war time and the future. From that date forward, the vests were available to the government royalty-free. According to the inventor’s son, Alvin A. Markus, his father “was happy his ingenuity contributed to saving lives.”
Today the military still uses a form of this life vest, and the basic model provided for all commercial airline travelers is based on this “Mae West” model. http://americacomesalive.com/i/maewest3-112x150.jpghttp://americacomesalive.com/2011/09/15/mae-west-life-preserver-countless-owe-lives-to-it/#.VXxqasLbKM8
To misquote MAE for countless lives saved:" When I'm good, I'm very good, but when [It's] bad, I'm better. ” :03: