Word: whitney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three Arden horses-Knockdown. Lord Boswell and Perfect Bahram-went to the post at Churchill Downs, Elizabeth Arden Graham, who never started a horse in the Derby before, would be on a par with the late Harry Payne Whitney, who sent Upset (the only horse ever to beat mighty Man o' War), Wildair and Damask postward in 1920. The best Whitney could get was second with Upset...
...which Northrop Aircraft, Inc. is building for the U.S. Army. Fully loaded, it will weigh 104½ tons v. 70-for Boeing's B29. The wing is 7½ feet thick, big enough to house: 1) a 15-man crew; 2) four 3,000-h.p. Pratt & Whitney engines in the wing, with eight-bladed dual-rotation propellers in the trailing edge; 3) enough fuel to fly 10,000 miles nonstop; 4) a bomb load guesstimated as high as 25 tons. By eliminating fuselage and tail surfaces, whose air resistance slows down conventional planes, Northrop expects...
...voice husky with emotion, Whitney said: "He who fails to see in [the recent Japanese] election a demonstration of democracy on the march . . . either fails to understand the meaning of democracy or is blinded by prejudice...
MacArthur complied. Brigadier General Courtney Whitney, onetime Manila lawyer, began informing the Council in the most specific detail of the U.S. democratization policies. (At one point he read the names of nearly 200 Japanese organizations, apologized for omitting the addresses.) In the deliberate fashion of a schoolmaster lecturing a group of dull pupils, he interspersed pointed remarks directed at the Russian. (On one occasion: "Is the Russian representative understanding all this?" On another: "Will you kindly interpret that to General Derevyanko?") At the noon recess a correspondent asked when Whitney would finish. He smiled and answered: "I may be through...
...beginning of the afternoon session, Derevyanko, backed by MacMahon Ball: the British Commonwealth representative, suggested that the remainder of the report be submitted in writing. Whitney refused: ". . . the gentleman's [Derevyanko's] allegation . . . was a challenge to the Supreme Commander's conduct of the occupation. I intend to give the full details of this report and nothing short of it." He was allowed to finish while Ball closed his eyes as if in sleep...