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...Fireproof Paint. A fire-retarding paint that can be used for home decorating has been put on sale by Glidden Co. Intense heat makes the paint swell and char, forming an incombustible protective blanket. Price: $7.95 a gallon in white, $8.35 in black and colors...
...Fireproof Cloth. A new fireproofing solution for cloth was demonstrated at the National Safety Congress in Chicago by Treesdale Laboratories and Textile Processing Co. of Pittsburgh. Cloth treated with Permaproof will not flame at heats up to 4,500° F., can be laundered repeatedly without losing its fireproofing. It is already being used by several steel companies for cloth smocks to replace the heavy asbestos suits formerly worn by workers...
...York architectural firm of McKim, Mead, and White began drawing up plans for a fireproof building, to be made of steel, brick, and concrete...
...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...