Word: waterproofer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After Captain Eddie Rickenbacker's saga of planewreck in the South Pacific had publicized Scripture as a comfort for castaways, the Bible Society offered to furnish them to all rafts and lifeboats, complete with waterproof covers. War Shipping Administration, Army and Navy gladly accepted. By last week 21,000 New Testaments had been installed. Ten thousand more were awaiting assignment. Cost (from society's funds...
...seldom gets extremely cold in the Aleutians-temperatures below zero are rare-but it never gets warm. The williwaws* chill the bleak islands. The men on the islands wear bulky, waterproof clothes, fur-lined caps or knitted "phantom hats" which can be lowered over the face. Coveralls and boots are standard outer wear for ground crews...
...minutes to a sponge. He went home and said so. Then in self-defense he invented a semi-automatic bandage folder that would do the job in one minute. The device was made of wallboard, hinged with cloth tape, and was worth about 30?. Later, saturated fiber sheet and waterproof adhesive tape were used. Mr. Burnham gave the Delaware Red Cross full patent rights...
...shattering. To make it, glass is finely crushed and heated with carbon dust in a furnace. The molten mass rises and swells like dough as gas from the carbon froths up the melting glass into a foam which later cools and hardens while still keeping its foam structure. Waterproof, ratproof, rotproof, heat-resistant-Foamglas is finding its first big industrial use as a replacement for the cork linings of refrigerators. Today the industrial use of glass is making strides comparable to those of aluminum in the past decade, but it is challenged by plastics. The venerable U.S. glass industry, according...
When he took over the settlement, Baranov was left without a sailing ship. He built his own. He mixed native moss with hot pitch for calking, used mountain ash for hardwood. He set Russians and natives digging for coal and iron, made waterproof paint from whale oil and red ocher. His ship had three masts, two decks. For sails Baranov commandeered tents, trousers, jackets, sewed them into great sheets with seal gut thread...