Word: fireproof
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Architects tells about a new building material called Pyrok. When sprayed from a special gun, Pyrok sticks to almost any surface (from strawboard to steel) and rapidly builds up a wall of any desired thickness. A sledgehammer ,blow dents but does not crack it. It is waterproof, weatherproof, fireproof, and an excellent insulator, but can be sawed and nailed like wood...
Last week Dr. Little was hopeful; his scientist customers were rallying round, offering breeding stock from descendants of mice he had once shipped to them. In a year or so, he hopes, he will have all the most important strains, housed this time in improved, fireproof buildings. He still lacks a few strains (notably C57 brown, sub-line C and C57 brown, sub-line A, used chiefly for breast cancer research). Many of the strains used to illustrate Mendelian laws are also missing. Dr. Little thinks that the missing mice strains may yet be found in some small laboratory...
Alarmist. In Bloomfield, N.J., Charles Wilhoft, who had installed fireproof walls and floors in his house, hose and water outlets, coiled escape ropes, escape hatches and ladders, self-closing, antidraft doors, fire alarms on the stairs, decided to install a sprinkler system, "just in case...
Under the terms of orders emanating from University Hall all upper-story residents of "non-fireproof halls" are to appear to get instruction from the University Safety Patrol on how to undulate down the side of a buildings on hempen strands with flames flicking from windows enroute. The order fixes specific compulsory times for attendance but stresses that more precocious Yardlings will be permitted to put in extra time hanging around on the cables...
...backed up in search of outlets, shot down hallways with flamethrower force, began melting brass doorknobs, powdering plaster and licking at closed doors. Whenever a door was left open, death entered. At 3:50, when the 60-piece fire department started spindly ladders up along its scorching walls, the "fireproof," 33-year-old Winecoff, which, like most Atlanta hotels, has no outside fire escapes and no sprinkler system, was roaring like an open hearth...