On Mar 24, 12:35�pm, mm wrote:
Heard on the radio just now -- heard it before too -- that there was a
big influx into Baltimore of workers from West Virginia and Virginia
and Carolina during the war and maybe other times, and Black and
Decker used to rent power tools to the shipyard(s?) here. �According
to someone quoting Mr. Decker, he noticed -- didn't say exactly when
-- that people were taking the tools home and bringing them back, and
he asked them why, and was told "I can get so much done with these
things at home." �And after that, Black and Decker started selling the
tools through hardware stores.

sad they cut to junk quality, B&D is known as disposable tools