Word: waterproofers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Here's a fashion for night air raid warning . . . zip-fastened, one-piece suit . . . expanding pocket will hold a torch and compact, first-aid case . . . gas mask container is waterproof" (Debenham & Freebody...
...first Alsifilm was whitish and opaque, like a tough vellum paper. This quality suggested its use as a durable medium for writing and printing. Dr. Hauser is now making another kind, from a clay he discovered in California's Death Valley, which is almost completely transparent and waterproof-usable as wrapper for tobacco and foods. He is also experimenting with this type as a possible material for photographic films and automobile windows...
...Waterproof cigaret paper...
...cylinders of carbon dioxide covered with woolen jackets, and a supply of canvas gloves with which to handle them, since compressed carbon dioxide freezes its container when expanding. Linked with a long towline, the rafts would float together until help could come. To call for help there was a waterproof, 10-inch square, 15-watt radio transmitter run by dry cells. If these gave out, a waterproof hand generator could be used. The antenna would go aloft tied to a hydrogen-inflated balloon. For the guidance of rescue ships, smaller orange balloons would be blown up, cast on the ocean...
Prizes for the winning teams this year were waterproof playing cards instead of the customary cups. For the first prize, two decks of especially engraved cards were awarded...