Word: waterproofers
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...developed by a St. Paul inventor named Jose Baraquiel Calva, onetime Mexican government engineer. By treating fibers with several chemicals, including cresol, alcohol, benzol and hydrochloric acid, he converts them into a resinous plastic. The fibers can then be stiffened or softened, straightened or curled, made mothproof, shrinkproof, even waterproof...
...about 1% of Stabinol in ordinary soil prevents water from penetrating in sufficient quantity to soften it. A resin-stabilized road stays so dry that even when it is covered with a layer of water a truck driven over it throws up a trail of dust. Stabinol does not waterproof sand (because sand lacks a binder to make it solid) and it does not work on ground that is already muddy. It is most effective in heavy clay that usually becomes gooey when...
Erseats. In Washington, Assistant to the Director of Civilian Requirements Austion Grimshaw admitted that substitute fabrics for babies' waterproof pants were not working out too well, allotted some rubber to their makers...
...basic outergarment (field jacket and trousers) is windproof, waterproof, practically snagproof. If it holds up on test, it will be worn by U.S. soldiers everywhere except in the tropics...
...families in 68 localities, are bearing up nobly under the wartime sacrifices of consumers' goods. What really bothers them is not the big things so much as the lack of such simple but indispensable doodads as bobbie pins, metal pot scourers, flashlight batteries, elastic, safety pins, and waterproof pants for the baby...