Word: waterproof
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Givens, 37, a Chicagoan with bright blue eyes and bright new ideas, always wanted to be a nurse. But after she started to work, she had some doubts. Most of her patients were babies and they were usually a little soggy. So, off-duty, she tried to develop a waterproof outer diaper. She finally devised a "Dri-ette," two pieces of flannel bonded to a waterproof center which eliminated the objections of many mothers to rubber pants. The Dri-ette was not patentable but it did the trick. Babies could get wet, but nobody else would...
...demand for Dri-ettes grew, Dee expanded into two adjoining store buildings, had connecting doors knocked through the walls. The wartime shortages of rubber nipped her, but she developed a Dri-ette from synthetics. As business burgeoned, other manufacturers copied her idea. She merely added new products, standbys like waterproof panties, sheets and aprons...
Print papers have a gelatinous silver emulsion on a tough paper base. In the Resisto papers the base is impregnated with an acetate which makes it practically waterproof. Developing, fixing and washing solutions are thus absorbed by the emulsion only. Using Resisto, photographers need take only two minutes for fixing, four minutes for washing, three minutes for drying their prints. The results, says Eastman, are durable...
Butyl is made from petroleum. The Army is getting 12,000,000 Ibs. a month for tire tubes. Other butyl uses: waterproof clothes, tents, hoses, draperies...
Science has at last produced a waterproof match which lights when wet. For a year and a half, it has been a military secret. Last week military censors let the light shine forth...