Word: weatherproofed
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...nailing up 4.8 billion sq. ft. of plywood a year, plywood sales have increased 20% faster than even those of the booming aluminum industry in the past 15 years. Manufacturers have also pioneered a host of new products, from low-priced particle board, made of chips and shavings, to weatherproof, plastic-coated plywood and porcelain-faced colored panels (choice of nine) for bathrooms or exterior remodeling. The biggest push for wood products, in an era of self-service selling, comes from U.S. industry's heightened awareness of eye-catching packaging, and a wide range of new products...
...proposed arena would presumably be ready for next winter's hockey season if it were started in August. Besides providing a weatherproof roof for the ice, it would seat 2,000 spectators and include dressing rooms for the teams...
...making his own tractors. They cost more than Ford's or Ferguson's, but Brown said simply: "If we can't be the cheapest, let's be the best." He laid down the rule that the tractors should be "solid, comfortable to sit on, as weatherproof as possible, and as easy to drive...
These are the predictions of Arnold Court, onetime chief climatologist for the quartermaster general of the U.S. Army. All Court had to work with were 30 years of records made by other weathermen and the weatherproof equations of the statistical theory of extreme values. But the chances that he is correct, says Court in the latest issue of Geographical Review...
...Bavarian Alps, housepainting is an ancient and honorable art. In the 14th to 18th centuries, most buildings of any account were decorated with high, wide & handsome representations of saints (and, occasionally, sinner: These paintings, done in weatherproof fresco and retouched every 50 years so, still make scores of Bavarian streets look like open-air picture galleries. Today the art of housepainting is enjoying a boom, thanks largely to the efforts and skill of a Garmisch-Partenkirchen painter named Heinrich Bickel...