Word: pratt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...August "everyone goes to Scotland," and last week "everyone" included a more than usually thick sprinkling of potent Americans: John Pierpont Morgan, Alanson Bigelow Houghton, James Watson Gerard, Charles W. Ogden, Henry C. Phipps, Clarence Hungerford Mackay, Walter Teagle, Herbert L. Pratt, Stephen Metcalf and many another...
Standard Oil of New York. President Herbert Lee Pratt of Standard of N. Y., as is his habit in controversy, said nothing. He was waiting, his office announced last week, for the return from Europe of Charles Evans Hughes who advises him on trade relations with the Russian Soviets. Despite this announcement, President Pratt sailed with his family on the Aquitania last week for a holiday on a grouse moor which he has rented in Scotland...
Muffled from toes to topknot, Lieut. Carlton G. Champion of the U. S. Navy last week climbed above Washington, D. C., as far as his Wright Apache seaplane, with a Pratt & Whitney "Wasp" motor, would take him. When he came down, his instruments were certified as showing 37,995 feet (7 1/5 miles), nearly a mile higher than the previous world's altitude record for seaplanes, made by Champion Champion...
...securing of a million-and-a-half dollar contract, Glenn L. Martin had also the personal satisfaction of having built a plane with features that Navy experts had said could not be successfully worked out. Seeking the Navy contract, Mr. Martin had designed a plane which, using a Pratt & Whitney Co. air-cooled motor, could carry four men, bombs or a torpedo to the weight of one ton, and yet have a ceiling* of 12,500 feet and make 120 miles an hour with a flying range of 800 miles. Naval experts refused to authorize construction of this plane, believing...
Died. John Teele Pratt, 53, Standard Oil financier; suddenly of heart disease; in his Broadway office, Manhattan. Thirty-six years ago his father, Charles Pratt, died of heart disease in offices at the same address. Mrs. Ruth S. Pratt, widow of John Teele Pratt, is the first and only woman to function as a New York City alderman...