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Word: pratt (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...socially elect in the House are likewise few, including Representatives Aldrich, Bacon, Beck, Fish, (Mrs.) McCormick, (Mrs.) Pratt, Snell, Tilson, Wainwright, Wigglesworth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mr. Gann Goes Out | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...with its ornate fittings* Cadillac's President Lawrence P. Fisher just paid $75,000. In between were sturdy one and two-seater open cockpit monoplanes and biplanes. Most models, however, were "closed jobs," built as coupes, sedans, coaches, cabins, buses. All but four planes were single-motored, with Pratt & Whitneys, Wrights, Warners, leBlonds, for the most part.† Exceptions were the trimotored Fords, Fokkers, Boeings and Kreutzers (a new Los Angeles product) and the twin-engined Sikorsky amphibian. Notable for the interest they excited in visitors and the sales they engendered were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Detroit Show | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...order that the heathen might learn the advantages of kerosene lighting, he had stepped in and irreverently undersold Standard, thus filing free U. S. lamps with cheap Royal Dutch kerosene. Well, the old Standard was broken up now ? its pieces, in fact, were all around him: Herbert L. Pratt, Standard Oil of New York; W. T. Holliday, Standard Oil of Ohio; Edward G. Seubert, Standard Oil of Indiana (an absentee was Col. Robert Wright Stewart) ; Walter Clark Teagle, Standard Oil of New Jersey (one good Standard friend of Sir Henri's) ; and, at the other end of a long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Smooth Oil | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

Vice Admiral William Veazie Pratt, present Commander of the Battle Fleet, will replace Admiral Henry Ariosto Wiley as Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Fleet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: New Posts | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

Vice Admiral Louis McCoy Nulton, Commander of the Battleship Divisions of the Battle Fleet, will replace Admiral Pratt as Commander of the Battle Fleet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: New Posts | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

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