Word: panning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...Another of the booklet's profound pronouncements: "If you hang the pan on a hook for storage, it should have a hole for the purpose...
Ernest K. Bramblett, 52, a mild-mannered, fourth-term Republican Congressman from the coastal strip of central California, jumped from a political frying pan into a fire...
Ships steaming across the North Atlantic from west to east like to keep in the Gulf Stream, which increases their speed by a knot or so at no cost. Pan American's Stratocruisers, flying from Tokyo to Honolulu, are taking the same advantage of the "jet stream," which is the Gulf Stream of the upper air. Last week one of Pan Am's clippers made the Tokyo-Honolulu run in a record 9 hr. 18 min. Its average, point-to-point speed was 422 rn.p.h., and 123 m.p.h. was a gift of the friendly jet stream...
JAPAN Air Lines opened a twice-weekly trans-Pacific service, flying DC-6Bs piloted by Americans. The airline hopes to get a fat slice of travel business now split largely between Pan American and Northwest Airlines. By the summer of 1955, J.A.L. hopes to halve San Francisco-Tokyo running time to 15 hours by using Comet II's, plans to start a now Tokyo-to-London jet Service across Asia...