Word: whitney
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yale administration views all this striving and social differentiation with an amused tolerance, though twinges of doubt sometimes intrude upon even the most complacent minds. Alert, young President A. Whitney Griswold, himself a big wheel activities man as an undergraduate, confessed to the CRIMSON several years ago that "Down here we need to start doing things for their own sake, not for what they will lead to." His assistant Reuben A. Holden says "The whole accent down here is group activities while at Harvard a man is left pretty much to himself, whether he wants it or not." Professor Weiss...
When Graves graduated, Dan stayed on. He became Handsome Dan and the Elies became the Bulldogs. Dan died of natural causes in 1898 and was rewarded for his loyal service by being stuffed and placed in a glass case in Yale's Payne Whitney Gymnasium...
Practically every engine builder on both sides of the Atlantic has a two-spool model under development. Out in front is Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Co. of Hartford, Conn., whose two-spool J57 is already in limited production. Several British manufacturers are not far behind...
...intercontinental bomber of the future, this week won a contract that may put it out ahead in fighter planes. It got the first production contract in the U.S. for a delta-wing jet fighter, the F-102. The new 20,000-lb. plane will be powered by Pratt & Whitney's J57 jet (TIME, May 28, 1951) and will be armed with rockets fired automatically with new controls developed by Howard Hughes' aircraft company. Convair expects its supersonic F-102 to be the world's fastest military aircraft...
When will the jet age arrive for commercial airlines? It's already here, say the British, who are flying their jet Comet on commercial routes. But Chairman Fred B. Rentschler of United Aircraft, whose J57 Pratt & Whitney jet engine is probably the most powerful in production, disagrees. In plain words, he cut through the fog of confusing claims about jet transports. Piston planes, said Rentschler, will still be flying the bulk of commercial travelers in 1956, and jet fleets will not come until several years after that...