Word: whitney
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Monster Seaplane. To the Glenn L. Martin Co. went a Navy contract for the largest, most powerful, fastest flying boat ever developed. Specifications: three Pratt & Whitney motors producing 1,725 h. p. Top speed, 140 m. p. h. Cruising radius, 2,000 miles. Crew, five men. Cost, $150,000. Construction time, one year. This all-metal seaplane will serve the Navy as a "fighting patrol...
...long ago the U. S. Polo Association: called upon Hawaii for ponies for an international match. Sportsman Dillingham contributed two prize mounts, with the proviso: "If anything happens to them, we are to stand the damage." Harry Payne Whitney did his best to return this patriotic courtesy by helping Mr. Dillingham pick out some fine Virginia mares and serving them free at the Whitney stud, to give the Islands a good new strain...
...Pratt & Whitney Aircraft...
William Hale Harkness Cornelius V. Whitney...
...Stone is 62, Mr. Webster 61), there will be a junior Stone and a junior Webster to take their places. For among the directors of the new corporation will be Whitney Stone (Harvard, 1930) and Edwin Sibley Webster Jr. (Harvard, 1923) who is also a Stone & Webster Vice President under the new incorporation...