Word: fiberboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Inside the tinderbox building one boy woke as the flames rolled across the fiberboard ceiling, and cried out the alarm. Flinging themselves against the windows, some of the youngsters slashed their heads and arms on broken glass, tore frantically at the "escape-proof" steel mesh between them and safety. While others pushed at him in terror, Charley Meadows, 16-year-old night sergeant for the inmates, at last broke through one window guard, and another gave way to the boys' desperate strength. Through the two openings, 48 escaped. By the time the fire trucks arrived, the building had caved...
...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, e.g., wet-proof, rodentproof, flameproof paper bags are now widely used instead of drums, fiberboard cartons in place of wooden crates. So great is the demand for paper and fiberboard containers that many big manufacturers, e.g., Crown Zellerbach, have had to ration some products...
...Detroit nightclub one night last week, the floor show was led by Michigan's Governor G. Mennen Williams and Bridgeport Brass Co.'s President Herman W. Steinkraus. Wearing white smocks, the two bore down on a 12-ft.-by-8-ft. white fiberboard elephant, proceeded to dab the elephant with pink paint. Then, some 550 Bridgeport Brass employees filed past, finished painting the elephant from trunk to tail...
Developed for the Army Chemical Corps, diffusion board resembles ordinary wood-pulp fiberboard, ⅝ in. thick. Impregnated with special chemicals (the kinds are still classified), it acts much like an ordinary Army gas mask, filters out gases and germ-carrying particles as well as radioactive dust, lets oxygen and carbon dioxide breathe through. Against direct radiation itself, the porous diffusion board gives no protection. Thick lead or concrete shields must be used to keep out death-dealing gamma rays. Moreover, lining the walls of an average home with the board would not eliminate dust, which could sift in over windowsills...
Caddy v. Keg. Atlanta's Atlantic Steel Co.. a major U.S. producer of nails, began packing them in new fiberboard cartons instead of the familiar wooden kegs. Developed by International Paper Co., the Nail Caddy saves up to 25% in storage space, has markings top and side for easy identification, and weighs 3 lbs. to 4 lbs. less than...