Word: fireproofed
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...more than any other American except Thomas Edison and John O'Connor; of influenza; in Miami Beach. Chemist Ellis' inventions gave birth to more than 100,000 compounds. He developed Standard Oil's tube-&-tank process of cracking oil, found the formula for cheap acetone to fireproof airplane wings in World War I, made plastics an exact and lucrative science...
...course there's one fly in the ointment. It's a little tough that wealthy anonymous donors seldom seem to give large sums of money for more and better teachers to keep the tutorial system from dying on its feet. A fireproof and air-conditioned library, 55 by 120 feet and conforming with the prevailing architecture of the Yard, is much solider and more enduring than a new tutor. But perhaps we could get around that, and give each teacher a bronze plaque to wear around his neck, reading: "This man donated to Harvard by John Doe '87. Enter here...
...plant burned to the ground. Only 15 planes, some wings, fuselages, spare parts were saved. When he got back, he found his mechanics out on the field putting together a plane with one silver wing, one red one. Pocketing his $75,000 loss (virtually no insurance), he bought a fireproof brick building from Susquehanna Silk Mills in Lock Haven, Pa., 80 miles away, renamed his company Piper Aircraft Corp., and started over. His loss for the year was only $39,555, and in 1938 profits were $14,031. Last year he added a fireproof repair shop, 15 hangars, a shipping...
...patients since the first inmates were carried to its damp slave huts one dark night in 1894. Today, patients live in 45 wooden houses arranged around a quadrangle and linked by roofed plank platforms. These cottages, soon to be torn down, will be replaced by two-story fireproof houses. Last week construction workers started on a recreation building. For the rebuilding of Carville, the U. S. Public Health Service last year appropriated...
...country place at Hyde Park on which we live will, without doubt, eventually go to the Federal Government to be maintained for the benefit of the public by the Federal Government. It is, therefore, my thought that funds can be raised for the erection of a separate, modern, fireproof building...