Word: fireproofed
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...apparently, did all but one of the 285 guests in the brown brick, 15-story, "fireproof" hotel. At 3:32, a switchboard light winked; a soldier in 510 wanted ice and ginger ale. Clerk Rowan sent Bellhop Bill Mobley up with it, and told the night engineer to go along for a routine building check. They had to wait in the hall about three minutes for the guest to finish his bath. They spent another three minutes in his room. When they opened the door again, the hall was ringed with fire...
...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...
...progress, on at least one of his pet programs. Workmen started tearing out the old lift, proudly reported they had found a hoofprint of Algonquin in the cork tile floor. The cage will go to the Smithsonian Institution as a relic. It will be replaced by a speedy, fireproof elevator designed by White House Architect Lorenzo Winslow at Harry Truman's order. Until about Oct. 1 the Truman family will have to use the stairways...
They stood for a moment not believing their eyes. Fire? In the quiet, respectable, "fireproof" La Salle? A window drapery flared into flame. A fear-crazed crowd burst from the Silver Lounge on the ground floor, jammed through the doors. The brightly lighted lobby, deserted, crackled with fire...
Undaunted, Potter Palmer built a new hotel (the first fireproof one in the U.S.), worked under calcium lights at night to have it open before the rival Grand Pacific Hotel. When Palmer lost, he grimly built a board-and-shingled shack in the lobby of his $2,500,000 hotel, labeled it: "This is what the Grand Pacific is made of." In time, Architect Frank Lloyd Wright ridiculed the gingerbready Palmer House as "an ugly old man whose wrinkles were all in the wrong place...