Word: fireproofed
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...Finally added up the bill for White House repairs: $5,400,000 to construct a fireproof, steel & concrete interior which would stand on its own foundations inside the existing exterior, like a self-contained house within a house. Talking it over with congressional committeemen, Harry Truman remembered how he had first noticed signs of trouble when "the big, fat butler brought me my breakfast one morning and the floor shook." What finally convinced him was the day the bathroom floor sagged perilously and he imagined himself plummeting through the floor, bathtub and all, during a reception in the Blue Room...
...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...