Word: fireproof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young book collector and heir to transit-car millions, he could not, however, compete with J. P. Morgan for the rarer editions at auctions. Before he left for Europe in the spring of 1912, he considered either establishing a bibliography chair at Harvard, or giving the University a fireproof library...
...Congress, were put this week in their permanent home in the National Archives Exhibition Hall. Their home is a big glass showcase which, at the touch of a button, sinks slowly through the floor into a huge vault in the cellar. The 50-ton safe, a bombproof, thiefproof, fireproof stronghold with 15-in. thick walls and 5-ton armored doors will keep the historic documents as safe as the gold in Fort Knox. By day, the documents will be on exhibition; at night, they will repose in the $30,000 vault built by the Mosler Safe Co., "the biggest...
Extra Precaution. In Los Angeles, when University of Southern California Professor Kenneth L. Trefftzs hired a contractor to build him a fireproof roof, a tar melting machine caught fire and burned down his house...
...plant, Union Carbide opens the door to an infinite variety of new products. From a new abundance of such coal-hydrogenation chemicals as toluene, xylene, napthalene and phenol, predicted Union Carbide's President Morse Dial, will come an endless stream of new medicines and drugs, long-wearing and fireproof fabrics, new paints and detergents, better weed-killers and insecticides...
...greatest strides forward. It was he who established the Agassiz Station at Harvard, the transfer of the southern station from Peru to South Africa, and with the collaboration of Menzel, the installation at Climax, Colorado. The new headquarters building in Cambridge was built under his direction, and provides fireproof housing for the nearly half million plates which contain Harvard's history of the sky for the past sixty years...