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...doubles, Barnaby teamed Mills with Ned Weld, Laurie Pratt with Bill Wood, and Al Goldman with Pete Krogh. Only the Pratt-Wood team ran into any difficulty, as they were extended before winning...
Laurence O. Pratt '26, Public Relations Officer for the Program, said yesterday that the drive now will concentrate on so-called "advanced gifts," or those from individuals able to contribute extraordinary amounts...
...engine KC-135 jet tanker-transport, Convair's supersonic F102 interceptor and five other military planes. Soon the even bigger J75 will go into two more important planes, Convair's supersonic F106 interceptor and Republic's F-105 fighter-bomber. To add to its horsepower riches, Pratt & Whitney has important military contracts for a smaller J52 jet engine and a T57 turboprop, and is building a $50 million plant in Connecticut to develop a nuclear engine. Net result for United Aircraft, whose Chairman H. M. ("Jack") Horner and President William P. Gwinn also have a booming business...
...Force will let a big segment of the vital U.S. aircraft-engine industry wither away. But the immediate future looks thin. Said one Pentagon policymaker last week: "I would like to see a more even distribution. But for all these jet-engine people, it is just too bad that Pratt & Whitney is so uniformly good...
...selling off plants of Pratt-Whitney, a subsidiary machine-tool maker (no connection with the aircraft-engine firm), Silberstein raised $4,500,000 in cash, then leased back the plants for 30 years at a total rental of $30.9 million...