Word: waterproofers
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...called a geophone. Transplanting it to the sea floor and making it work there was like doing a chemical experiment at the bottom of a swimming pool. Nevertheless the geologist got to work, enlisted the technical ingenuity of Dr. William Maurice Ewing of Lehigh University. It was necessary to waterproof the dynamite charges, steel-jacket the seismographs, rig electrical connections and a device for determining whether the recorders on the bottom were level. After making sure that everything was shipshape aboard the Atlantis, Dr. Field went ashore, left the survey in Dr. Ewing's hands...
...Nearing completion in Moscow is a super-safe stratosphere balloon made of waterproof muslin. If something goes wrong at high altitude, the bag is designed to spread into the shape of a parachute, land men and equipment without damage...
...base if the city would give $10,000. The city agreed. But an architect's committee argued so long that the time limit for the city appropriation was exceeded and the Pulitzers had to make up the $10,000 difference. Finally selected was a waterproof Italian marble from Trieste which would not crack or chip. But it cost $35,000. Once again the Brothers Pulitzer made up the $10,000 difference. In less than 20 years they had spent $45,000 of their own on their father's $50,000 statue...
...Waterproof paper umbrellas...
...Yard last evening, wondering why the Gods had not arranged a rotating weather schedule for the Fall. Cambridge puts on a cloak of the Mediaeval for rainy weather, especially on drenching evenings, and as the Vagabond trudged along, drawing himself bodily farther into the innermost warmth of his copious waterproof, he could not help exploring a trifle the grey depths of his youth. From faraway Massachusetts Avenue the groaning of a homebound orange street car was subdued by the nearer steady trickle of the penetrating downpour. From the obscurity on the right rose the indistinct shape of an old haunt...