Word: pratt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George DuPont Pratt...
Lionel ("Old Man") Pratt, the hostel's oldest veteran, had come to China when the Sino-Japanese war (1895) was still big news. The Government had made him secretary-adviser to Madame Chiang Kaishek. Whenever Old China Hand Pratt talked about "the war," newsmen often suspected that he meant the war of 50 years...
...first of 15 which Northrop Aircraft, Inc. is building for the U.S. Army. Fully loaded, it will weigh 104½ tons v. 70-for Boeing's B29. The wing is 7½ feet thick, big enough to house: 1) a 15-man crew; 2) four 3,000-h.p. Pratt & Whitney engines in the wing, with eight-bladed dual-rotation propellers in the trailing edge; 3) enough fuel to fly 10,000 miles nonstop; 4) a bomb load guesstimated as high as 25 tons. By eliminating fuselage and tail surfaces, whose air resistance slows down conventional planes, Northrop expects...
Married. Boris Karloff (real name: William Henry Pratt), 58, gaunt cinema bogeyman; and Evelyn Helmore, 42; both for the second time; in Boulder City, Nev., the day after Karloff was granted a divorce from his first wife, Dorothy Stine Pratt, who he said was cruel...
...manor houses was Killenworth, a million dollars in stone and granite, Tudor style, with 39 paneled rooms, 13 baths, twelve fireplaces, five cellars, a swimming pool, and flower beds tended by 50 gardeners. It was built by Capitalist Pratt's third son, George Dupont Pratt, well-known conservationist, Boy Scout sponsor, big-game hunter and collector of relics of early civilization. When the master died in 1935, Killenworth fell on hard times, eventually went on sale for taxes. In 1944 the Miller Manufacturing Co., local trunk makers, took it over as an administrative headquarters. Last week Miller & Co. sold...