Word: pratt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Douglas E. Bragdon 1G, Portland, Mc.; Hugh H. Chapman, Jr. 2G, Evansville, Ind.; Thomas D. Durrance 1G, Washington, D. C.; David M. Pratt 2G, Williams town, Mass.; Lloyd G. Carr 1G, Waynesbore, Va.; Kendrick S. Fow 1G, Durham, N. C.; Curtis B. Watson 1G, Haverford, Pa.; and Carl P. Swanson 4G, Pigeon Cove, Mass...
...airplane business last May, with a grandiose announcement that he could build "1,000 airplanes a day." Just as abruptly he talked himself out in June, when he refused to accept the Rolls-Royce engine contract which Packard later took. What brought him back was the tremendous pressure on Pratt & Whitney to up its capacity, plus P. & W. executives' respect for the Ford organization, plus Bill Knudsen's quiet insistence that Ford Motor Co. had to find a place in U. S. defense...
Last August, Son Edsel Ford and tough, brilliant Production Manager Charles E. Sorensen visited Hartford, Conn., where Pratt & Whitney had already upped its capacity nearly ten times since January 1939. Abuilding were factory additions which would double the August capacity, give P. & W. a production rate of 17,000 to 20,000 engines a year by late 1941. Said Charles Sorensen: "I did not believe such a stupendous job could be done in such a short time." Then he went back to Detroit, broke ground for an $11,000,000 engine plant there before he got his contract...
...those who expected the automobile industry's mass-production wizards to work overnight miracles were bound to be disappointed. Charles Sorensen is certainly such a wizard. Ford's great shops can make some of the machine tools which Pratt & Whitney has to get from outside suppliers. Ford foundries will produce alloys which P. &W. buys (from Aluminum Co. of America). Sorensen & colleagues took over Pratt &Whitney's production methods in the main, but have already worked out some speed-up tricks. Experienced P. & W. men are on the job in Detroit, both to teach and to learn...
...less than 1,000). What the President was really talking about-no matter how immediate he sounded-was future capacity. Some of the plants to create this capacity were abuilding last week, should be in production next year. For many of them, "future" meant 1942, at the earliest. Booming Pratt &Whitney, for instance, should indeed have its 17,000-20,000 annual rate of production by next year. But 1942 will be the first year when P. & W. will have its full operating rate for a whole twelvemonth, will actually produce that many engines. U. S. defense production last week...