Word: panse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Army, waving aside all advice, had stubbornly insisted on buying the Stevens. Cost: $6,000,000 (its original cost in 1927: $28,000,000). Then, in a fabulous five-day sale, the Army had auctioned off almost all the internal fixings of the Stevens-pots, pans, bowling alleys, beds...
Now the Army, sick of its bargain, and having at last discovered that its soldiers were better trained at country training camps, wanted to sell the Stevens. This seemed stupidity compounded: where in this land of priorities could anyone possibly buy enough down-cushion sofas, good beds, copper and aluminum...
> A $100,000 stainless steel kitchen, hundreds of copper and aluminum pots & pans, 2,000 Seltzer bottles.
Within about three months the Salinas mill will have ground its way through all the guayule now available (it takes two to three years to grow to commercial size). But if the Government's growing program in the Southwest pans out, there will be enough to produce 21,000...
Quantitatively this is no more than shipyards, now approaching their maxima of slightly better than five ships a day, will deliver in 1943. But qualitatively Land's program-if it pans out-will represent a big improvement over this year's record. Half of the 2,000-odd...