Word: panse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once that the dough for bread has been prepared it is removed to the "profing room" where it sits in great tubs to rise. Steam jets keep the air of the room warm and moist for the difficult and delicate process. Leaves are prepared for the even either by rough...
Ob jets de Guerre. Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art opened a "Useful Objects in Wartime" exhibit. Featured: baking pans made of paper, a cornhusk doormat, an open-top hamper-cart for the free wheeling of groceries, a plastic sink stopper, a felt eyeglass case.
Consumer Goods. Most retail shops have closed. Those still functioning, like Moscow's five-story Mostorg department store, have little more than rows of empty counters. Housewives can rarely get pots & pans, chinaware, hairpins, combs, brushes, soap. Men cannot buy razor blades, pens or watches.
Kitchenware. WPB banned further production of thousands of kitchen utensils after this week, including bottle openers, corkscrews, dippers, sieves, bread-boxes, jugs, dustpans, washboards, wringers. A little steel will be allowed for frying and roasting pans.
There was some good news about rubber last week, but-as the careful newspaper reader could see-it went no further than a new hope of meeting really essential needs during the year and a half before the 800,000-ton synthetic program can get going full blast. Last month...