Word: pratt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Elliott Pratt, work camp director of I. S. S., will speak on the farm labor and work camp program, while Mrs. Pratt, Acting Executive Secretary, will discuss other activities of the organization...
Today Bachelor Kartveli, like other top-drawer ideamen in aviation, is busy about next year's design. But sometimes he goes out on the field to watch his 2,000-h.p. (Pratt & Whitney) Thunderbolt in the air. He's proud of the beast. "A nice plane," he admits, in an accent tinged with French, rather than Russian. "But she's too big." Airmen who fly the beast could argue with him, but they don't. They know it's an esthete's criticism...
Ford and Charlie Sorensen started making Pratt & Whitney airplane engines before they even had an order. When the Government finally asked Ford to put up a Pratt & Whitney plant, he figured that OPM had set its sights too low, left one end of the building open for extensions. Without any nod from Washington, he turned an engineer loose on a V12 liquid-cooled engine of his own. He started putting up Willow Run on the sole basis of a relatively small order for sub-assemblies...
Centrifugally cast cylinder barrels will be used in all of Ford's Pratt & Whitney engines by this month's end. Both Army and Pratt & Whitney engineers-mindful of the old cast-iron stove lid, which was almost as brittle as glass-were leary of steel castings until Ford testers showed that, while forged barrels burst at 5,000 to 7,000 lb. per sq. in., centrifugally cast barrels burst at 9,000 to 10,000 lb. "Moreover," said a Ford engineer last week, "$10,000 worth of centrifugal dies will turn out as many cylinder barrel blanks...
...months unconfirmed and unconfirmable rumors have persisted that the Japanese were experimenting with bacterial warfare in China. But the first reliable report reached the U.S. only last month, in a letter to the American Bureau for Medical Aid to China. Pratt double-checked his story with Chinese officials. Two days later the New York Times printed virtually the same story from its Chungking correspondent, Harrison Forman. In both accounts the essential facts were the same, were vouched for by Dr. Robert Lim, head of the Chinese Red Cross...