Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ambitious Weekly. The other peace-seeking periodical has given the Manhattan eyrie of the New Republic the expectant aura of a hospital delivery room-even though the birth is still months away. But the prospect is more exciting to Editor Michael Whitney Straight (rhymes with bait) than the current affairs of the New Republic, his family's journal of opinion...
...Powered with four 3,500-h.p. Pratt & Whitney engines, it cruises at 340 m.p.h. for 3,500 non-stop miles...
...conference ended in fiasco. Walter Reuther shut down General Motors, Phil Murray shut down steel, and by January there were more people on strike than ever before in U.S. history. On April Fool's Day John Lewis shut the soft coal mines and the next month Messrs. Whitney & Johnston stopped the railroads...
Back in 1939, Pan Am's directors, led by Board Chairman Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, staged the first revolt. They had forced Trippe to give up some of his power, and to agree to appoint an executive vice president to take charge of Pan Am's flying operations. The peacemakers at that time were Colt and Morgan...
...strange sight. Its 230-ft. wing (v. 141 feet for the 6-29) was set halfway back in the 163-ft., cigar-shaped fuselage. In the leading edge of the wing, where conventional planes have their propellers, XB-36 had only narrow, mouthlike air intakes for the six Pratt & Whitney 3,000-h.p. engines. They drive three-bladed propellers on the wing's trailing edge...