Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Whitney, John Hay Whitney's exwife, and Gwladys Hopkins Whitney, ex of Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, helped form a lobby in Washington against a proposal to tax ex-wives for the alimony they get and let ex-husbands deduct the alimony they pay. Dropped once, the measure is due to reappear. Camel-lipped Character George Arliss appeared before the Lord Mayor of London, was fined $18,000 for not registering with the Bank of England some $52,000 worth of U.S. and Canadian securities. The onetime portrayer of money-wizard Rothschild said he was an innocent in money matters...
...Highest point in the U.S.-California's Mt. Whitney, 14,495 feet high...
Last week 200 of Bruce's Government-owned water colors were put on exhibition at Manhattan's Whitney Museum of American Art. Nearly all of them were U.S. landscapes: from New England farmhouses to California hills. Many were by such capable U.S. artists as John Edward Heliker, Adolf Dehn, Phil Paradise, Olin Dows. Many equally deft ones were by relatively unknown U.S. painters. Surprised by the variety of techniques and the splashy spontaneity of the pictures, Manhattan critics rated the show one of the best in recent years...
Ford's $700,000,000 defense job could be more easily comprehended. Fordmen led reporters through the great new Ford aircraft-engine plant where the first of 9,043 huge 2,000-h.p. Pratt & Whitney radials are being built, under a license agreement that will give United Aircraft Corp. a royalty of only $1 an engine. Completed in eleven months, the $37,000,000 plant is turning out one engine a day, should produce 300 a month by year...
...year Henry Ford expects to fly 250 brand-new four-motored Consolidated (6-24) bombers every month. And there was another reason for the blistering rate at which the work was going along. For Ford has already set the date when the first 6-24, powered by Pratt & Whitney engines made in the River Rouge plant, is expected to come off the line, ready for flight: the week before Christmas...