Word: pratt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under its biggest, blackest headlines, the New York Post last week published the story that readers of Sunday supplements have waited for since World War II began. Military Expert Fletcher Pratt told how the Japanese had tried to spread bubonic plague from planes over the Chinese city of Changteh...
...Board Dive--Won by McCutcheon (H); second, Gath (P); third, Pratt (P). Winner's points...
...powered by a 2,000-h.p. Pratt & Whitney air-cooled engine, has a high speed of more than 400 m.p.h. in level flight, has done an incredible 680 in a dive.* Although it had been widely publicized, before Pearl Harbor, as a definitive U.S. answer to the need of high-altitude fighters, P-47's altitude performance was not mentioned by OEM, therefore could not be mentioned by the press. But OEM did give other details...
...Rube Fleet turns out, they are built to Fleet's most important hallmark: long range. These giants, designed for naval patrol, can travel 5,200 miles-possibly more-on a single load of gas. They can cruise at 170 m.p.h. on 45% of the power of their four Pratt & Whitney 1,200-h.p. engines...
Whether these increased risks are the reason or not, wildcatters are not finding as much oil as they used to. Geologist Wallace E. Pratt of Standard Oil of NJ. figures that brand-new oil discoveries in 1938-40 were only 2.6 billion bbl. against 5.15 billion in 1934-36. In 1928-30, when east Texas came in, the figure topped 10 billion. Demand, meanwhile, rose from 2.9 billion in 1928-30 to 4.3 billion in 1938-40. The lines are going in opposite directions, are leaving an oilless gap which may some day burn out the gears of U.S. industry...