Word: flameproofing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...safety regulations now require roll-bars on every car, flameproof coveralls for every driver. Still, two drivers have died in practice runs this month. Says 45-year-old Fred Agabashian, longtime 500 driver who quit racing last year: "You don't reach retirement age in one of those things." Even the toughest drivers find the Indianapolis toughest of all. Johnny Parsons, the 1950 winner, retired this month with the explanation: "When you get down to the end of those straightaways and can't hold your foot down any more, it's time to quit...
...porcelain-faced colored panels (choice of nine) for bathrooms or exterior remodeling. The biggest push for wood products, in an era of self-service selling, comes from U.S. industry's heightened awareness of eye-catching packaging, and a wide range of new products, e.g., wet-proof, rodentproof, flameproof paper bags are now widely used instead of drums, fiberboard cartons in place of wooden crates. So great is the demand for paper and fiberboard containers that many big manufacturers, e.g., Crown Zellerbach, have had to ration some products...
...chopped up, because the Navy demanded extra reinforcing stanchions. Because the Navy banned all inflammable materials, the ship has no wooden ornaments or canvas paintings; public rooms are decorated with cold aluminum and glass sculptures and panels, or flame-resistant Dynel fabrics. Furniture and life preservers are stuffed with flameproof glass fiber instead of kapok. The only wooden objects on board are the butcher's blocks and the pianos. Even the orchestra leaders' batons are aluminum...