Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...designer's problem would be simple. He need then only build bigger & bigger engines, yielding more & more power, higher & higher speed. But for flying purposes weight, head-resistance and fuel consumption must be reckoned in the same equation with power. Hence U. S. motor-makers (Wright; Pratt & Whitney) are proud of the fact that in the past five years they have upped airplane engine power from 525 to 700 h. p., reducing at the same time the weight per horsepower...
Last week Pratt & Whitney boasted that it had produced the most powerful aeronautical engine in the U. S.-800 h. p.† It is a Twin Wasp, with 14 cylinders in two concentric radial banks of seven cylinders each. Weight: 1.36 Ib. per h. p. Pratt & Whitney began experiments in increased power four years ago, decided on the two-bank radial design largely because it offers no more head resistance than the ordinary single-bank type. Observers guessed that the Twin Wasp would be installed in the new high-speed Boeing transports for United Airlines, and in the giant Sikorsky...
...Golden Miller, Dorothy Paget's favorite for next fortnight's Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree: the Cheltenham Gold Cup, over three miles and three furlongs; at Cheltenham, England; with Thomond II. owned by Miss Paget's cousin, John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, second. Next day, a Whitney entry in next week's Grand National-Dusty Foot, ridden by George H. ("Pete") Bostwick-ran second to Ego, in Cheltenham's National Hunt Chase...
Chicago. As a polite gesture to the dozens of Chicago galleries which have exhibited the work of Eastern artists for years, the Whitney Museum exhibited a large loan collection of works by Chicago artists. Manhattan critics found the choice excellent, the work sound, were disappointed in the absence of local color. High spot was Grant Wood's famed American Gothic, a portrait of a sad-eyed collarless Iowa farmer & wife (TIME, Sept. 5). Other Chicago artists seemed as willing to copy New York's Reginald Marsh, Thomas Benton, Alexander Brook, as New York artists of a decade...
Trailing until the last session, the Harvard bridge team came through to take the final match by a perfect hand to win the intercollegiate contract bridge tournament held Friday and Saturday evenings in the Whitney Bridge Club at New Haven, Connecticut. The Crimson gained 18 points and Princeton 16 points...