Word: waterproofing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coalition ranks reformed, pressed on to Casein Creek. (Casein is a skimmed milk by-product of large industrial value.) Battle lines crumbled weakly as the attackers swept through to double the rate (2½? to 5½? per lb.). Farmers cheered lustily and manufacturers of waterproof paints, glue, coated paper, groaned with despair...
...Momsen-Tibbals "lungs"-a mask like device with nose-clip, mouthpiece and two flexible tubes to a pouch worn on the chest. The pouch contains soda-lime, to absorb exhaled carbon dioxide, and compressed oxygen for inhalation. Over the head fits a caplike helmet with waterproof goggles...
Wild duck, of many breeds, should be hunted, in warm jackets and waterproof boots, near Currituck Sound, N. C., Barnegat Bay, N. J., marshy shores along the Atlantic coast, on long dark lakes in the middle west and in club-blinds along the Great Lakes. In these last, at Sandusky, near Cleveland, President Cleveland used to go hunting...
...crutches it has had to use for the past several years, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the friend and believer who placed Candidate Smith in nomination in 1920, 1924, 1928. With Mrs. Roosevelt, he sat on the outdoor platform, huddled from the rain under a canopy of State Troopers' waterproof coats...
...Story: Harry Rebhan bought (January 1927) a patent rain-coat from its German inventor. He doubled his commodity to a practical small package, founded the Rain-Pak Corporation, and has sold over 500,000 waterproof coats since June 1927. He sold 30,000 marked with armbands of Harvard, University of Pennsylvania, Illinois, Kansas, etc. He sold them to all Liggett Drug Stores...