Word: pratt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...airplane engines. Over its steel framework contractors had first built a fibreboard shell, so that workmen, sheltered inside, could lay brick and pour concrete through winter weather. Last week the building, almost a fifth of a mile long, was hatching, pink and raw, out of its cocoon. By June, Pratt & Whitney double Wasp engines should be rolling...
...John Lee Pratt, retired executive vice president of General Motors. Still consulted in General Motors policy, John Pratt loves facts, hates fancy, would probably sell his Virginia dairy farm in a minute if it didn...
...carefully conceived plan, his independent leadership in carrying it out, Humanitarian Hoover had stout support from two military men: General John J. Pershing and onetime CINCUS William V. Pratt (U. S. N. retired). Said General Pershing, in a telegram to Chicago: "I have every confidence that the salvation of these people can be worked out along the lines proposed by Mr. Hoover without military loss or benefit to either side." Said Sailorman Pratt (now back on active duty in the Navy), after approving the Hoover plan: "Only America can meet this emergency...
Since C. I. O.'s United Automobile Workers still hope to force Henry Ford to recognize them as a bargaining agency for Fordmen, U. A. W. yelled bloody murder when Ford got a $122,000,000 order for making Pratt & Whitney aircraft engines, gave a Bronx cheer to unofficial Army explanations that Ford was best qualified to make the engines and that the engines were needed. The Defense Commission's ClOman Sidney Hillman put in his protest when Ford got another order: $2,000,000 worth of midget combat trucks to replace the Army's motorcycles...
...planes in Detroit. General Motors, Chrysler and Ford will build airplane sub-assemblies, ship them to four midwest and southwest assembly plants, there to be put together by aircraft mechanics under the supervision of airplane manufacturers. Detroit has already prepared to build engines to fly bombers. Ford is building Pratt & Whitney engines, Buick will build a plant (near Chicago) to do the same. Studebaker will build Wrights. During the past three weeks, while the Big Three were preparing to produce airplane parts, order lists have been heavy with contracts for aircraft accessories, wing panels and other plane parts to automotive...