Word: windproof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...glass is a double sheet with a transparent filler or binding layer between. In the old glass the filler was cellulose acetate. In the new it is polyvinyl acetal resin, a synthetic plastic made from acetylene. In an automobile this flexible, yielding pane is something like a transparent, moistureproof, windproof curtain. It is expected to cut down the number and seriousness of highway injuries due to sudden stops...
...Exposition, to which went representatives of all the big U. S. companies that like to tickle their customers with offers of something for nothing - or almost nothing. High-piled was the Palmer House with balloons, sheets, watch fobs, razor blades, doll carriages, billfolds, tumblers, electric irons, toasters, waffle irons, windproof cigaret lighters, astrological charts, pith helmets. Careening up & down the crowded aisles in a skimpy bathing suit was a shapely red-haired young lady on a gleaming bicycle...
...Stock cars are equipped with so many accessories it seems incredible that at the Show a whole floor was devoted to specialties. It would take a car a block long to carry everything that was offered to refine the pleasure of motoring. There were windproof matches, cigaret lighters, electric clocks, radio outlets, pneumatic foot rests, fancy metal tire covers, heated windshield wipers, sunvisors. There was an ejector spring that opens the door at a touch on the handle. More costly was a shock absorber system operated from the dash which lets the driver adjust his car to the roughness...