Word: panse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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> The Office of Civilian Defense announced that 6,700,000 pounds of pots-&-pans aluminum had already moved into defense production, enough to make about 1,825 fighting planes.
While the U.S. sped aid to Britain last week, little Cuba was speeding aid to the U.S. Through Havana's streets the Municipal Band led a parade whose banners heralded the opening of National Aluminum Week. Purpose: to send the U.S. 35,000 pounds of aluminum pots & pans -enough...
FORTUNE'S deepest assumption is that man can use his foresight to forfend against the evils he faces. The U.S. has learned that modern war reaches into every part of a nation's life, that war changes its mind, changes its habits, takes the pots & pans away from...
From millions of U.S. kitchens, attics, cellars, industrial nooks & crannies poured millions of pots & pans, kettles, hair curlers, meat cutters, ice-cream dippers, anything and everything made of aluminum. Just how much usable aluminum-for-defense was collected will not be known until the mountains of donated scrap are melted...
The most wasteful nation in the world began to mend its ways this week. All over the U.S., housewives dug into closets, came up with old aluminum pots & pans for defense.* OPM hoped the drive would turn up 15-20,000,000 lb. of scrap aluminum which could either be...