Word: dishpans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suds in his wife's dishpan reminded Alastair Pilkington that the surface of a liquid is ideally flat. Back at the plant he floated molten glass on molten metal and found that its bottom side took on a shiny finish. In the full-scale machine, which took seven years to get working properly, a wide ribbon of soft glass is floated in a tank of molten metal (the metal or alloy used is a trade secret). As the ribbon moves to the far end of the tank, it is cooled by a controlled atmosphere and finally solidifies. The result...
...Submersible Pot. An electric coffee pot that can be submerged in a dishpan or washed in an automatic dishwasher was introduced at the National Housewares Show at Atlantic City this week. Manufactured by National Presto Industries (pressure cookers) of Eau Claire, Wis., the stainless steel pot has both heating element and thermostat enclosed in a waterproof plastic base, is the first submersible coffeemaker to win Underwriters Laboratories approval. Price: about...
...talkie calls from patrolmen stationed for blocks around. The radio crackled: "Post No. 3 reporting, 9:30 p.m. All is peaceful." This reassuring word came from the street outside 10630 South Bensley, where six cops sat in a tin shack, a hole in its roof covered by an old dishpan, warming themselves at a portable stove and ignoring the shrill profanity of a gang of teen-agers across the street. If Post No. 3 had reported trouble (as it sometimes did), hundreds of additional policemen would have been rushed to the scene. But this was a quiet night in Trumbull...
...Agriculture, he pointed out. was distributing a booklet telling the housewife how to wash dishes. "Now someone whose salary is paid by the taxpayer's money made a remarkable discovery and put it right in the booklet," said Candidate Eisenhower. "He says dishes should be washed in a dishpan, not just any dishpan, either. The Department of Agriculture says you will want a pan large enough to accommodate your dishes. But it must also fit into your sink if that is where you use it . . .*These things are a symbol of the shameful wasting of tax funds...
...Sutton and Ayres offer no cure-all for dishpan hands, but advise their fellow dermatologists: 1) eliminate physical irritants, along with nervousness ("practice amateur psychiatry"), and cut down coffee, tea and cola drinks; 2) eliminate chemical irritants and use only the mildest ointments or dressings. Many a case of dishpan hands, the doctors warn, is made worse by overzealous treatment...