Word: pratt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thought the U.S. East Coast would be token-bombed, that the Nazis would loose poison gas on England. Columnist George Fielding Eliot wrote that Japs would be "swiftly and decisively beaten." Newscaster Raymond Gram Swing predicted Hitler would either retire or be ousted by the German Army. Author Fletcher Pratt said only a miracle could save Russia "from utter defeat." Foreign Correspondent John T. Whitaker limb-climbed with a flat forecast that the Nazis would invade Spain and Portugal in the spring. Ex-CBS Berlin Newscaster Harry Flannery agreed with him, added the Azores and Canary Islands. For the same...
...century. Though there is plenty of talent in Standard's executive offices high in Rockefeller Center three out of four likely candidates are either nearing the retirement limit or in ill health. They are R. W. Gallagher, 46 years with Standard but now 62 years old; Wallace E. Pratt, aged 57, one of the nation's outstanding geologists; and Orville Harden, perhaps the most brilliant of Standard's board but in ill health...
...Pratt & the Graf Spee. Military Expert Fletcher Pratt of New York City invented in 1929 and has since developed a Naval War Game which actually approximates sea war. One night in 1939 the players looked at each other and whistled. Three light ships had just sunk the German pocket battleship, the Admiral Graf Spee, a supposedly impossible feat. But their calculations showed it could be done-and they were not so much surprised as vindicated when the Graf Spee actually got her comeuppance in just that way six months later off Brazil...
...Pratt's game uses wooden ship models, representing most of the fleets of the world. Each ship has an exact valuation (worked out from Jane's Fighting Ships and other authoritative references) in thousands of points-so much for armor thickness, so much for fire power, speed and other characteristics. Opposing ships maneuver, and then fire at each other by a complicated system. (Airplanes, torpedoes and submarines are added factors.) Publication by Pratt of a 30-page book describing his game, in 1940, resulted in the formation of over 20 clubs about the country, whose members crawl around...
Information about the squadron can be obtained at the Cadet Armory on the corner of Arlington and Stuart Streets in Boston any Wednesday evening between 5:45 and 8:30 o'clock, or by calling L. Laurence O. Pratt '26 at HUBbard 0430. Lt.-Col. Charles A. Coolidge '17, a member of the Board of Overseers, is the commanding officer...