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Word: whitneys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Detroit. General Motors, Chrysler and Ford will build airplane sub-assemblies, ship them to four midwest and southwest assembly plants, there to be put together by aircraft mechanics under the supervision of airplane manufacturers. Detroit has already prepared to build engines to fly bombers. Ford is building Pratt & Whitney engines, Buick will build a plant (near Chicago) to do the same. Studebaker will build Wrights. During the past three weeks, while the Big Three were preparing to produce airplane parts, order lists have been heavy with contracts for aircraft accessories, wing panels and other plane parts to automotive suppliers-Murry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Defense: Planes from Detroit | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

...members of the Committee Against Mili- tary Interventions which includes the following students: Tudor Gardiner 1L, David K. Eichler 1G, Paul C. Hoover 2G, Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. 2L, Kenneth T. Young, Jr. 2G, Robert A. Taft, Jr. 2L, E. Langdon Burwell '41, Seth C. Crocker '41, H. Whitney Dodge '41, John V. Frank '41, Alan Gottlieb '41, Joseph P. Lyford '41, Henry D. Oyen '41, John P. Bunker '42, William Hodson '42, Thomas Lacey 2nd '42, Harry Newman, Jr. '42, William A. Stenzel '44, Charles W. Young '44, and Robert J.M. Matteson 2P.A

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NO-WAR BLOC URGES FDR TO KEEP PROMISE | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

This week's schedule is light, with two games on the card. Yale figures in both. Pennsylvania plays Yale in the Payne Whitney Gymnasium at New Haven on Wednesday night and Cornell has an opportunity to consolidate its hold on second place when the Red five meets Yale at Ithaca on Saturday night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dartmouth Seems Headed for Fourth Straight Hoop Title | 1/22/1941 | See Source »

...thinking when the pressure is put on. It will be for the right to assemble freely at Miss Deborah Dillingfeather's party to sample champagne and ski talk till four in the morning; for the privilege of a jury trial (thank God there's only one Dick Whitney and as for those Reds Sacco and Vanzetti, they should have been sent back to Russia in the first place); for a democracy extolled by sophists who call themselves teachers and hypocrites who call themselves representatives of the people...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 1/8/1941 | See Source »

...went painfully into chicken-feed production with its liquid-cooled Allison. Packard bravely took the $125,000,000 British Rolls-Royce order that Henry Ford turned down. In November, Ford himself, who had earlier talked of 1,000 planes a day, took a $122,000,000 order for Pratt & Whitney Double Wasps. His engineers went to Hartford to find out how to make them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1940, The First Year of War Economy | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

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