Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days the Japs had plenty of opportunity to pick up plane pointers from sales-minded U.S. and European manufacturers. They bought one, two, or a few of each type that looked good, and immediately set about copying them. United Aircraft's Pratt & Whitney and Curtiss-Wright's Wright Aeronautical Corp. licensed Japanese manufacturers to make certain types of their motors. Hamilton Standard (propellers) sold their plans outright. Douglas Aircraft sold them the original...
...three years the ten owners of Life With Father sat tight and looked haughty. They were in no hurry: oil was gushing in their own backyard, and Hollywood's checks could be waved away. The ten owners-Producer Oscar Serlin, Adapters Lindsay & Crouse, Mrs. Clarence Day, John Hay Whitney and the rest-saw Life With Father gross $973,000 on Broadway the first year, $860,000 the second, could still count on a tidy sum the third, while road companies grossed $2,000,000 more. Inwardly they rocked with laughter thinking of the $15,000 Warner Bros, had once...
...more adventurous trips of the summer was last Sunday's ascent of the Whitney-Gilman route on Cannon Mountain by several members of the club. First pioneered by a Harvard Math professor and member of the club back in 1930, the seven-hundred foot vertical buttress is usually considered the finest rock-climb in New England...
...from England for the first time in 1909-the first year he played on an international team. He played on all the U.S. international teams from that year through 1927, and lost only one match-to England, in 1914. A member of the famed Big Four (others: Harry Payne Whitney, Larry and Monty Waterbury), he was a nine-goal man for nine years, and for twelve years his handicap was ten (tops...
...bargain-counter rush in medieval halberds and maces, paneled Tudor interiors, stained-glass windows, Louis XIV chairs, a heterogeneous collection of like knickknacks. The flush market was fed by the breaking up of such huge, tax-harried U.S. estates and collections as those of William Randolph Hearst, Harry Payne Whitney, Mrs. Christian R. Holmes...