Word: shatterproof
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...paneled lobby of Manhattan's Algonquin Hotel, popular theatrical rendezvous, Manager Frank Case last week hung the photographs of eleven Broadway dramacritics. Since the hotel is also frequented by actors, Mr. Case announced that he had posted a 24-hour guard over the pictures, had framed them under shatterproof glass...
...idea of shatterproof glass was born in 1903 when a French chemist, Edouard Benedictus, knocked a bottle containing dried collodion from a shelf. The bottle cracked but the fragments did not spatter. Benedictus concluded that they were held together by the collodion film. He got a patent in 1914 but the first shatterproof glass did not appear in automobiles until...
...their devoted subjects strange and forlorn indeed. The very first British cavalry to be mechanized is the brigade now in Egypt. Wrathful natives who today hurl paving stones from a safe distance at these horsed heroes will soon find them riding in British buses equipped with windows of shatterproof glass...
...Products Corp., makers of "Hit-of-the-Week" phonograph records, announced that this month they would issue, in the same envelope, a four-in. disc containing music and advertising matter. Name of this new medium is "Durium Junior." For more than two years Durium Products has been selling flexible, shatterproof, one-side recordings of popular tunes, on news and cigar stands. Peak sales have reached 500,000 weekly, at 15? per disc; but the average is about 200,000. Formerly these tenin. discs played for only three min.; now, through a new "micro-channel" process (more grooves), introduced three...