Word: pratt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lincoln has inspired symphonies by Daniel Gregory Mason, Russell Bennett, Silas Pratt; a Requiem (on the Gettysburg Address) by Rubin Goldmark; an Abraham Lincoln Song (to Walt Whitman's O Captain! My Captain!) by Walter Damrosch. None ever caught on. And last week Cincinnati critics had their doubts after listening to Weinberger's symphony, given by Eugene Goossens and the Cincinnati Symphony. Weinberger plunged heavily into Deep River, splashing the spiritual not only in his "heroic scherzo" but also in a final rondo. The other movements were subtitled "6 Captain! My Captain!" and "The Hand on the Plough...
...worth of 1,200-h.p. Pratt & Whitney radial engines, which Chevrolet and Buick hope to turn out at the rate of 2,000 a month...
Ford's $700,000,000 defense job could be more easily comprehended. Fordmen led reporters through the great new Ford aircraft-engine plant where the first of 9,043 huge 2,000-h.p. Pratt & Whitney radials are being built, under a license agreement that will give United Aircraft Corp. a royalty of only $1 an engine. Completed in eleven months, the $37,000,000 plant is turning out one engine a day, should produce 300 a month by year...
...within a year Henry Ford expects to fly 250 brand-new four-motored Consolidated (6-24) bombers every month. And there was another reason for the blistering rate at which the work was going along. For Ford has already set the date when the first 6-24, powered by Pratt & Whitney engines made in the River Rouge plant, is expected to come off the line, ready for flight: the week before Christmas...
Divorced. George Randolph Hearst, 37, eldest son of Publisher William Randolph Hearst; by Lorna Pratt Velie Hearst; in Los Angeles...