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Bath's American Museum is a project born of pique. For years the museum's founders-British-born Antique Dealer John Judkyn and Manhattan Psychiatrist Dallas Pratt-have been spending summers in Britain, and each year found the British as dense about the U.S. as the year before. In 1956 Pratt set up the Halcyon Foundation to endow a museum, and Judkyn found the site. It was Bath's Claverton Manor, designed by George IV's architect, Sir Jeffry Wyatville...
...divert attention from Kennedy himself at public gatherings. After graduating cum laude from Harvard. Nitze joined Wall Street's Dillon, Read & Co., Inc., where he began working on his first million and met James Forrestal, later to become the first Defense Secretary. In 1932 Nitze married Phyllis Pratt, granddaughter of a founder of Standard Oil. After wartime service as an economist, Nitze began a brilliant career in State. In 1948 he was prime mover of the group that took the general ideas of Secretary George Marshall and whipped them into the practical program that became the Marshall Plan...
Primarily affected by the proposed cancellation are the Convair Division of General Dynamics Corp., major contractor for the initial airframe design, General Electric Co. and the Pratt & Whitney Division of United Aircraft Corp., who are developing the nuclear-powered engines. G.E. has already begun sending out notices to dozens of subcontractors and suppliers to stop work on orders totaling millions of dollars, estimated it may have to lay off hundreds of employees. Pratt & Whitney expects to lay off about 800. Convair would also be hurt by the elimination of additional funds for its 6-58 Hustler bomber and by Kennedy...
...belly of the high-wing jet will be only 50 in. above the ground, so that trucks can easily be driven through its large tail door into its air-conditioned, pressurized cargo hold. Power from the four Pratt & Whitney turbofan engines will be great enough to lift the plane off 6,000-ft. runways with a 50,000-lb. load, making it possible to fly in and out of fields all over the world. It will fly the Atlantic with a 60,000-lb. load, the vaster Pacific with a 20,000-lb. load. The plane will be built...
When American began flying Boeing jets just over two years ago, it had to settle for regular jet engines. Later, Pratt & Whitney developed a way to convert the jet engines on American's planes into turbofans. At a cost of $50 million, American is converting 23 Boeing 707s and ten 720s. The Boeings that American still has on order will also be outfitted with turbofans. By next year American expects to be the only U.S. airline to have its entire jet fleet powered by turbofans...