Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after an amazingly short take-off run of 50 yd. The pilot whipped the plane into a vertical bank, streaked back at 225 m.p.h. The roar of the motor, one newshawk said afterward, was the deepest note he had ever heard from an aircraft engine. This engine was Pratt & Whitney's new 1830 Wasp, described by its makers as the most powerful ever developed for standard service in the U. S. Before the flight demonstration another 1830 Wasp on a test block made spectators' ears throb, shook their bellies...
Since radial air-cooled engines began to supplant other types, their power has been steadily stepped up by supercharging, higher compression, stronger parts and fuels with higher octane rating. Pratt & Whitney began to think that not much more could be asked of radial engines in single nine-cylinder banks. Since 1929 they have been tinkering with 14 cylinders in two banks, with smaller bores and lighter, more frequent power impulses...
...Navy likes the Wasp 1830 so much that it has ordered 200, banned their export. Last week's demonstration was in the nature of a release for U. S. commercial use. United Airlines, which sets as much store by Pratt & Whitney power plants as American Airlines does by the famed Wright Cyclones, has ordered 26 of the 1830's for its fleet of 24-passenger Douglas sleeper planes (TIME, March...
...Pittsburgh legend for years after his death, but hardly anyone outside western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio had heard of him until Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute exhumed some of his paintings from the countryside's parlors, gave them a showing in 1932. Last week Manhattan's Whitney Museum of American Art rounded up all the Blythe pictures it could get, put them on exhibition beside the works of another, long-forgotten Pennsylvanian, Joseph Boggs ("The Professor") Beale, whose lively drawings were lately discovered in the attic of a onetime Philadelphia lantern-slide maker (TIME, Aug. 19). Critics mentioned...
Stronger than the usual J.V. group, the Junior Varsity will meet with little trouble from the Bostonians. Archer Trench, Ham Richards, and Duane Whitney are all players of Varsity calibre...