Word: weatherproof
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since 1936, the U.S. has had 41 major coal mine explosions. Coal mines are almost weatherproof, but Meteorologist Charles L. Hosier of Penn State nevertheless suspected that the explosions had some connection with the weather. Last week he had what looked like proof...
...Institute of Architects tells about a new building material called Pyrok. When sprayed from a special gun, Pyrok sticks to almost any surface (from strawboard to steel) and rapidly builds up a wall of any desired thickness. A sledgehammer ,blow dents but does not crack it. It is waterproof, weatherproof, fireproof, and an excellent insulator, but can be sawed and nailed like wood...
...Cajun Jack Willis formed his C. W. Plywood Co., devised his own weatherproof plywood. During the war, the Air Corps alone used 30 million board feet of it and, to date, Willis has sold more plywood to lumber dealers than anybody else. Some of his plywood profits, about $200,000 last year, were plowed back into Home-Ola. But his real ace in the hole is the interest he owns in two plywood companies. While shortages are squeezing other prefabricators, Home-Ola has all the basic material it needs...
...grew rougher, Lieut. Commander Noah Adair, the Angry's captain, pulled his weatherproof hood tighter over his red thatch, drew the voluminous coat closer around his tall, lanky frame. The bridge, where he stood swaying with the ship's roll, was open to rain, wind and spray, except for a strip of canvas lashed to the rail and another strip overhead...
...Surprise packages, each 47 inches by 23 by 15, weighing 250 pounds, going soon to the troops abroad. Into these weatherproof, shock-absorbing cases the Army packs a long-and short-wave receiving set, a phonograph turntable, 50 phonograph records, 25 half-hour transcriptions of top network commercial programs, a collection of songbooks, several harmonicas, 100 paperbound volumes of recent fiction, spare batteries and tubes...