Word: fireproof
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When it does play under the Big Top again, the circus will be as safe as it can be made-not fireproof, but "flameproofed." Roughly, this means that the 75,000 yards of canvas, the 41 tents and the wooden parts of the folding grandstands can still catch fire, but that flames cannot spread beyond the area of the fire. After a lot of thought, the circus decided not to yank its Clown Fire House act, feeling "it would be more conspicuous by its absence...
...soldiers silently forced Antonescu up the stairs to a small fireproof vault King Carol had built to safeguard his stamp collection. There they locked...
...Navy has scraped a lot of paint off parts of ships to reduce the fire hazard. What to put in its place? Last week it became known that the Navy has an answer: a fireproof ceramic (glazed) coating that seems to have many advantages...
...house, so light (three tons) and compact that it can be moved from place to place on a truck trailer. Its chief feature is a new insulating material called Plastic Foam, which looks like dry ice, weighs only a tenth as much as rock wool or cork board, is fireproof, waterproof, soundproof. The house, tele scoped to 8 ft. wide on the road, pulls out to 15 ft. to provide two bedrooms, has a small living room and kitchen, costs $1,800 complete with furniture...
...Glass-fiber yarns, once woven into decorative fabrics, are now limited to war uses only. Fireproof, rotproof and impervious to salt air, Fiberglas curtains Navy doorways to save weight and metal. Glass fabric is also used as a lampshade on million-candle-power reconnaissance flares to keep the glare out of observers' eyes and camera lenses...