Word: shatterproof
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London cabby is a very special Briton. For the reckless abandon of the Paris taximan, the invective flow of the Cairo driver, the proletarian dynamism of the Moscow hackman-who, even before the German invasion, drove his car as if it were a tank-the London cabby substitutes a shatterproof Cockney calm. Last week that calm was somewhat ruffled. The London cabby had his back up. He had decided to enter politics...
...Gleam. In Chicago, President John Holmes of Swift & Co. promised that the postwar world would have an eskimo pie with a shatterproof coat...
...shatterproof light bulb, with a strong filament and lacquer coating, that could be banged on a table without breaking...
Libbey-Owens-Ford went into plastics to manufacture the plastic sandwich-filler used between pieces of plate glass to make shatterproof automobile and airplane windshields. Recently Du Pont, pioneer of plastics, announced that it had put its sandwich filler to completely new uses...
...Flop. At Fort Ord, Calif., 1,500 new inflammable hand grenades were rejected. The glass containers were shatterproof...