Word: fireproofed
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...January night 50 years ago, way uptown at Broadway and 40th Street, there was opened a luxurious, "absolutely fireproof" theater, its facade all carved stone, its interior all red and gilt. On that evening in 1893 Manhattan did not realize that its great theater district of the future was taking root. The new Empire Theater seemed a rather ambitious venture, even for Producer Charles Frohman and his famous stock company. It was baptized with a melodrama laid in an Army post, called The Girl I Left Behind Me (by David Belasco and Franklyn Fyles). When the Empire celebrated its soth...
Connie dashed down the runway with her engines in full cry, dropped her bellow to a mutter, stopped, turned around again. Smoke plumed from one of her engine nacelles. But fire there meant less danger than it had meant in older ships. In each fireproof engine housing were 16 thermostatic fire warnings and an extinguishing system to put carbon dioxide just where it was needed. The blaze, from a backfire, died...
...Iroquois Theater holocaust in 1903. One Boston newspaper ran a two-word banner line: BUSBOY BLAMED. But the busboy had not put up the Cocoanut Grove's tinder-box decorations, nor was he responsible for the fact that Boston's laws do not require nightclubs to have fireproof fixtures, sprinkler systems or exit markers...
...first description of them. The KV (for Marshal Klimenti Voroshilov) is a massive 46-tonner, with a 76-mm. main gun and thick armor which turns shells from enemy 75s and is often proof against fire from the Germans' famed 88s. The Russians say that it is almost fireproof, a decided improvement over German, British and U.S. tanks...
...about 4? a yard (comparable to the price of gauze); 3) easily sterilized, highly absorbent, stronger when wet than dry; 4) easy to produce-can be turned out ten times faster than loomed yardage; 5) better than the finest-weave fabric as a vehicle for acid-resistant, waterproof or fireproof coatings-because it contains no interstices at all. Where Masslinn will fit into the post war cotton-goods market is any man's guess. Robert Harper, manager of J. & J.'s Masslinn Division, disclaims any designs on the apparel field, says that Masslinn's present tensile strength...