Word: fireproofed
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...Fireproof Tile. Armstrong Cork Co. put on sale a new acoustical ceiling tile that it hopes will cut costs in public buildings. Fire codes require heavy insulation of beams before applying ceiling tile; Armstrong's Fire-Guard tile eliminates the need by interlocking to form its own insulation. Price: 75? to $1.10 for a foot-square tile...
...which run underneath the building, with an annex under Lamont, reached by a long echoing corridor. The stack area is air conditioned, with the air being washed, filtered, and run between electrically charged plates, to prevent disintegration of the books. The temperature is kept constant, and the walls are fireproof. In fact the library is so carefully constructed that the only possible danger is that at some time a water pipe might leak and inundate the stacks. To guard against this remote possibility, the library has a number of leak detectors, protruding from the walls, and troughs beneath the pipes...
...Fireproof Paint. A new smokeless, nonflammable paint said by its makers to be far more effective than other fire-retarding paints was brought out by Baltimore Paint & Chemical Corp. Called Saf, it stops flames from spreading, insulates interiors against heat by forming a coat of cellular puffs up to an inch thick when touched by fire. Cost...
...works will be on ready tap for scholars. St. Louis University has now become a center for manuscript research previously possible only at the Vatican. To make sure that the film stands as good a chance of survival as the originals, the negatives will be kept in a special fireproof, burglarproof vault, under strict temperature and humidity controls. That the film will never become the sole record of the Vatican's great treasures is the prayer of the Jesuit fathers...
...Ching Institute, a research center for the study of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean language and literature, has been hoping for some time to move out of Boylston Hall. Boylston is not fireproof, and much of the Institute's collection of 300,000 books and manuscripts is irreplaceable...