Word: whitney
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mare, Rosita, is the property of Major H. H. Raj Rajeshwar Saramad Rajhai-Hindustan Maharaja Dhirej Sri Sir Ummaid Singh-ji Sahib Bahadur of Jodpur, is the British star. Gargantilla, spectacularly marked veteran of the last series from the Whitney stables, will be among those under Milburn...
...year ago Harry Payne Whitney, generous turfman, sold four horses for a song, because Ogden Mills and Ogden Mills' sister (Mrs. Henry C. Phipps) were his good friends, because he wished them luck with their new Wheatley Stables. One of the four yearlings, a slender bay colt with a reckless eye, bore the name of Dice...
Muffled from toes to topknot, Lieut. Carlton G. Champion of the U. S. Navy last week climbed above Washington, D. C., as far as his Wright Apache seaplane, with a Pratt & Whitney "Wasp" motor, would take him. When he came down, his instruments were certified as showing 37,995 feet (7 1/5 miles), nearly a mile higher than the previous world's altitude record for seaplanes, made by Champion Champion...
...securing of a million-and-a-half dollar contract, Glenn L. Martin had also the personal satisfaction of having built a plane with features that Navy experts had said could not be successfully worked out. Seeking the Navy contract, Mr. Martin had designed a plane which, using a Pratt & Whitney Co. air-cooled motor, could carry four men, bombs or a torpedo to the weight of one ton, and yet have a ceiling* of 12,500 feet and make 120 miles an hour with a flying range of 800 miles. Naval experts refused to authorize construction of this plane, believing...
Died. Howard Frederic Whitney, 52, banker, onetime president of United States Golf Association; of heart disease in Glen Cove...