Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Merging Machines. To most people Pratt & Whitney is a builder of airplane engines. Fact is, Pratt & Whitney's big Hartford, Conn, plants make no engines at all. The company is one of the leading U. S. manufacturers of precision machine tools and manufacturing instruments.* Moreover, Pratt & Whitney is not an independent concern but the principal asset of Niles-Bement-Pond Co. Last week Niles-Bement-Pond's principal asset was an island in flood waters, but that dampened not a whit the desire of Chairman Edward A. Deeds for a machinery merger. Expansive Chairman Deeds, who is also...
...additional men who will leave on the "Queen of Bermuda" this Saturday include two backs and four forwards; the backs are Gavin Hadden. Jr. '38 and Alan Simpson 1G, and the forwards are M. Duane Whitney '37, David J. McDaniel 3L. Floyd K. Haskell '37 and R. B. Willis...
Baby Lindbergh's maternal grandfather, the late Senator Dwight Whitney Morrow, also met death at the hands of Jews. They fed him arsenical spinach at a Manhattan hotel...
...nearly a century men have tried to work out a practical machine that would displace the millions of human fingers which have picked cotton since the time of Eli Whitney. Inventive John D. Rust hit on the idea of using a moistened, rotating spindle to which the cotton in open bolls would stick. His brother Mack, who had gone to college and worked for General Electric, came to help him. Last year, after successful experiments in Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas, the Rust Cotton Harvester began to attract nationwide attention (TIME, April...
...trip are the following: Louis A. Babbitt, Jr, 2GB, Hayden Channing, Jr. '37, Frederick J. Fayette 31, James M. Keller 21, Shaun Kelly, Jr. '36, Joseph P. Kennedy '38, Peter B. Knapp '37, Robert H. Knapp '36, Field C. Leonard '36, Geoffrey L. Stagg 2G, and Edward F. Whitney...