Word: fireproofed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington again last week, Joe Day spread his plans wide open to the world: Brooklyn Beach Gardena Apartments, Inc., 2,000 feet of water frontage on the Bay, 5,000 rooms, fireproof construction, automatic elevators, incinerators, radio outlets, 2,500 men to build them, 7,500 others to make the materials required. "This project will pay all taxes, city, State and Federal. All experts in consultation agreed that the property is one of the finest, not only in New York but in the country...
...panels, are bolted together with long strips of aluminum which give a modernistic effect to the exterior. The panels, 2¼in. thick, consist of two layers of mixed cement and asbestos. Between the layers is an insulating substance which looks like burnt cork and is termite-proof, fireproof. The outside of the house is a light grey, needs no paint. Extra rooms can be added from time to time by "unbuttoning" one outside wall...
...Roebuck & Co. will put a bungalow together for $2,500. But the prefabricated house builders hope to meet this competition by making their product twice as good as the cheapest house. They offer at least three things which Hodgson and Sears, Roebuck do not: termite-proof steel frames, airconditioning, fireproof materials. The prefabricated house is also earthquake-proof, can be blown over only by a 135-mi. gale...
...materially increased when he bought heavily into Armour & Co. (TIME, Dec. 25 1933). answered "by cable from Paris: EXPOSITION MUST TAKE PLACE ON SCHEDULE. At once his trusted Union Stock Yards President Arthur George Leonard, a founder of the Exposition, went to work to build a bigger, better fireproof edifice in six short months?a steel, brick & concrete modern-Gothic structure, three-storied and three-winged, with a vast grey-beamed, chromium-trimmed arena in its centre. "This," boasted President Leonard, "will be America's new Temple of Agriculture...
...sufficient time and ambition to go down and visit it until the other day when we had a free morning and Professor Lake failed to show up at English 35a. We were shown all the vital documents of the University since the 1640's carefully locked up in fireproof cases and spent the next two hours reading about the activities of colonial Harvard...