were divided by lasers and gps guided, measuring time was critical. i ve read that if your watch was off by more than about four seconds, then you could be off as much as about one nautical mile in terms of launch. jon: so during world war ii, the u.s. government commissioned the building of these accurate pocket watches and issued them to military perts knell. it was flown personnel. it was flown on all the b-17s, b-24s in europe during world world war ii, and s built for the navigators on this aircraft. jon: just one problem. if you re going to take apart and refurbish all of these highly technical time pieces, who do you get to do the work? r.t. found the answer here in a converted garage. it starts with a challenge. you have a watchmaker tell me i can t do it, and that was enough for me to decide to do it.
baseball fans hoping to get their hands on a piece of history will soon have their chance. babe ruth s long lost pocket watch going up for auction next month. it is a beauty there, isn t it? the watch from the 1923 world series between the new york yankees and the giants. yankees went at a time to win it. they were awarded pocket watches instead of rings. watches expected to sell for at least $750,000. all right, here s some good stuff for you the part of the show where we like to feature good news out there, because it is alive and well. we always want to bring you good news and here it is, lieutenant colonel wanted her homecoming to be memorable. she snuck up on her son at the free-throw line at the basketball team.
i have happened on all manner of people. i happened to p on rich people and i happened to pea on hot brunettes. it happens it is accidental. i will give rich people credit. they are far less quick to sue me than the poor. the thing is they show a horrible city. it is not caused by rich people. they keep spending and spending and the town declared bank bankruptcy. the city looked like detroit and there are no rich people. they left and live in gross point. i haven t seen it until you showed that clip there. it is like 1930s soviet cartoon where they have the guy with the cigar. and fat cats with pocket watches. i live around rich people. they don t look like that. the only way you will see
pocket watches and three piece suits is if hipsters take it over. or if you are on the side of downton abbie. and i have been. i have a any role there. i play reginald. he is the sensitive, but shy butler with love for ms. pence. and then he kills her and eats her. no spoilers. what am i talking about? from teaching kids to not having them. our rate of birth and our rein on earth, a new report from the research center says america s baby production is now at a record low. in 2011 it was 63.2 per thousand. per women of child bearing age. continuing the downward trend with the economic recession. what does this mean? obama is killing america, and new york times columnist railroading giews one reason
crystal. that s right, and of course, wrist watches came about because they couldn t get their pocket watches out of their pockets with all their equipment. sure. what do we have here? that is an imperial russian flyers uniform. and, of course, the imperial russians went out of business in 1917 with the revolution. wow. i ll tell you what, i ve been to your museum there in kansas city, missouri, it is fantastic. and if you re in the new york city area this weekend, check out the honoring our history world war i exhibit. it s going to be at the intrepid saturday through the 4th of july. last question for you, why were they called dough boys? they were called dough boys because when they were on the mexican border, they would be covered with adobe brick dust and they would go marching by and look at those marching adobes and it went to dough boys. nice seeing you. thank you very much. alisyn, over to you. thanks, guys.