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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...W. DONALD GEORGE Organist & Choirmaster
...Kenneth W. Donald, the British Navy's chief oxygen investigator, admits that he and his associates found the whole phenomenon highly mystifying. Their subjects (all volunteers) varied enormously in resistance to oxygen poisoning; and each individual varied greatly from day to day. One man was poisoned in seven minutes one day, resisted the same dose for nearly 2½ hours another day. For some unknown reason, people are more vulnerable to oxygen poisoning under water than under the same pressure in a pressure chamber. And at a pressure of one atmosphere or less (as in high-altitude flight), human...
...principal reason for such relatively painless transition was United's canny wartime conservatism. It did not expand beyond its abilities. Rentschler, who has a dread of spreading the brains too thin, farmed out work to some 650 vendor companies. To build P. & W. engines it licensed, among others, Ford, Buick, Nash-Kelvinator and Continental. Rentschler learned his job in more than 30 years' experience in the aircraft industry...
...Rentschler, who had resigned as president of Wright Aeronautical Corp., started Pratt & Whitney in a rented plant on a $250,000 loan. Four years later he moved into top position when P. & W. merged with Vought, Hamilton and Sikorsky...
Currently, United has a fat backlog of $315,000,000, second largest in the industry. For an aircraft company, it is fairly well diversified. Its P. & W. motors are being used in the DC-6, Boeing's new Stratocruiser and in nine other new planes now going into production. But the smooth ride has not lulled Rentschler and friends into thinking there may not be rough air ahead, stirred up by jet engines. Two months ago, United acquired the right to build and sell Rolls-Royce's turbojet engine, the Nene. In addition, P. & W. is developing...