Word: pratt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...output, however, it is still far short of the air-cooled horsepower top. Few weeks ago the Army hedged its liquid-cooled bet, put down $56,500,000, the biggest pursuit plane order in its history, for a brand-new plane, the Republic P-47, built around Pratt & Whitney's 2,000-horsepower air-cooled engine. Souped up by a brand-new and secret supercharger, P47 may well be the fastest, highest-riding pursuit plane in the world, with a fighting ceiling above 35,000 feet, a top speed well above 400 m.p.h...
...planes) seems likely to be the 3,000 horsepower radial. Among liquid-cooled makers, Lycoming and Continental are working hard on engines that some airmen hope will be good for pursuit. Henry Ford is plugging at two different high-powered, liquid-cooled engines (besides air-cooled Pratt & Whitneys, which he is making on contract). Allison has been long at work on a 24-cylinder, liquid-cooled engine that should develop around 2,400 h.p. The experimental Allison's cylinders are grouped in a W over two-geared crankshafts. Napier's Sabre is built into an H over geared...
Today U.S. aircraft manufacturers are getting air-cooled engines about as fast as they can put them into planes. Combined output of Pratt & Whitney and Wright is about 2,900 engines (2,850,000 horsepower) a month. The supply will be stepped up more than 2 for 1 after Ford, Buick and Studebaker come into production late this fall with their air-cooled engine plants, will jump again when Chevrolet starts producing radials by the fall of 1942. Allison, with production-slowing difficulties now apparently licked, has big production in sight, hopes to catch up with plane production by fall...
...been supplementary to automobiles, done in small amounts and in new and separate plants. A really big spate of orders will force the conversion of present automaking plants, tools and man power. Chevrolet, which got a new $89,075,000 War Department contract for 1,000 Pratt & Whitney airplane engines a month, has already prepared to convert all of its automobile facilities in Buffalo and Tonawanda to their manufacture. Other orders: To Ford, $140,000,000 for 4,807 Pratt & Whitneys (in addition to 4,236 already on order); to Chrysler, a $42,000,000 subcontract for Martin bomber parts...
...Harry Merrill Murdock of the Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital in Towson, Md. declared that U.S. citizens suffer from "great nervous stress [from] . . . so many terrifying alarms." In Germany, he continued, "control of neurosis has been attained. . . . Everyone has something to do and it is plain to him that what he is doing is a definite stride toward the goal he desires...