Word: nonskid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...motorists, skidding, churning, and bogging down in one of the snowiest winters on record, last week heard gripping news. At long last there has apparently been developed an honest-to-goodness nonskid tire...
...Agriculture: development of nonskid grass for landing fields...
...amateur meteorologist asked (and got) permission to use a cast-iron replica of Arpad atop his New Jersey weather station. At least one Army flyer has a mascot Arpad painted on his plane. Arpad even gets Christmas presents (last week a woman admirer sent him a nonskid perch made of sandpaper...
...Dektred is a new Goodyear nonskid flooring material for ships. A thick liquid, it may be sprayed or troweled on steel, wood or concrete, weighs little in the thin coating (1/32 in.) needed. Dektred is unimpaired by 50°-below-zero cold, softens but slightly in 160° heat, resists gasoline, oil, soap, salt water...
...Nonskid, chatter-proof false teeth are a postwar promise. Secret of their soundproofing: acrylic plastic, which is durable but not so hard that it clacks...