Word: waterproofer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Drill Does It. A.V.G. pilots were not rakehell supermen who needed no discipline and could worry along with second-rate planes. They were-and are-super-pilots. Every man among them got a postgraduate education from the onetime schoolmaster from Waterproof, La. who left the Air Corps in 1937 with the conviction that only war would prove his combat theories...
...basic price about 4? a yard (comparable to the price of gauze); 3) easily sterilized, highly absorbent, stronger when wet than dry; 4) easy to produce-can be turned out ten times faster than loomed yardage; 5) better than the finest-weave fabric as a vehicle for acid-resistant, waterproof or fireproof coatings-because it contains no interstices at all. Where Masslinn will fit into the post war cotton-goods market is any man's guess. Robert Harper, manager of J. & J.'s Masslinn Division, disclaims any designs on the apparel field, says that Masslinn's present...
...want to swim? Not in your own pool-shortages of waterproof paint, of chlorine to purify the water. And less chlorine means more tattletale grey in the laundry...
Significant was the convention's treatment of two men who have been Legion heroes for almost a quarter-century: Missouri's beet-faced, belligerent Senator Bennett Champ Clark, New York's gangling, ham-handed Representative Hamilton Fish, both airtight, waterproof, hermetically sealed Isolationists. Clark, one of the 17 Legion founders and the first permanent Legion chairman, was roundly booed. Fish, who wrote the preamble to the Legion constitution, came to town to make converts, soon gave up and left...
...Treated with organic solvents, soybean meal makes a plastic which is light, durable, almost transparent, waterproof, fireproof, rotproof. Many auto parts and countless miscellaneous objects are made of it. A main drawback, which chemists soon expect to overcome, is that it is hygroscopic (too eager to absorb water...