Word: pyrenees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Damaged Goods. Pyrene Manufacturing Co. (fire extinguishers) bought ads in newspapers all over the U.S. to deliver a solemn warning. It had just discovered that 500,000 small extinguishers it had sold might not put out fires. Reason: the chemical had gone bad. Advised Pyrene: have them replaced without charge...
The president of the American Chamber of Commerce in London, Wallace B. Phillips, returned to Manhattan last month to plead that the U.S. understand why Great Britain must continue the policy of "Empire preference" in her trade after the war. The short, chubby head of Pyrene Co., Ltd. thus gave...
¶ A chemical extinguisher which puts out burning magnesium, chief ingredient of incendiary bombs. Hitherto magnesium incendiaries have had to be smothered under buckets or sand heaps (water and common extinguishers only make them burn better). The new chemical, a secret of Pyrene Manufacturing Co., blankets the white-hot magnesium...