Word: waterproofer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nonrunning waterproof wax for the cosmetic stockings...
...giver who takes the poll to heart will send any serviceman a cribbage board unless he specifically requests it, nor burden an infantryman with a portable phonograph. He will steer clear of diaries, shun warm bathrobes, spurn a waterproof money belt for any but sailors...
...family might band together on a waterproof wrist watch or small portable radio. Almost 90% of the sailors and 75% of the soldiers want the wrist watch, making it the most popular single item. More than 75% of the sailors went for radios, even though they are banned at sea. (Portable phonographs are also popular in the Navy.) The radio, if sent, must be really small because no overseas package should be bigger than a shoebox nor weigh more than six pounds...
Potential irritants are almost everywhere-e.g., the oils with which sheets of aviation aluminum are coated, the chloronaphthalenes which waterproof electrical equipment, the oils which cool and lubricate the cutting edges of machine tools. Cutting oils are probably most bothersome. A Federal survey of 2,000 machinists in 1922 found that 27% of these workers suffered from oil acne. Vegetable and animal oils have often replaced the petroleum oils, but machinist's dermatitis is still common...
Liquid Legs. As silk stockings evaporate from the nation's store counters, cosmeticians are rushing in to challenge rayon. Liquid stockings are on the way. Last week in New York, one salon opened a "Leg-Bar"; showed waterproof, streak-proof, runproof, cosmetic stockings in giant lipstick form (called "leg-sticks"), in spray guns, in cakes, in bottles. Seams are applied with an eyebrow-pencil. To many women the whole thing sounded messy...