Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Great Britain. Douglas and United Aircraft's Vought-Sikorsky (airplane) division also look to automobile-body factories for airplane parts. Last week the biggest of all these contract links between the two industries was completed. Let to Henry Ford was a $122,000,000 contract to build Pratt & Whitney aircraft engines...
...business last May, with a grandiose announcement that he could build "1,000 airplanes a day." Just as abruptly he talked himself out in June, when he refused to accept the Rolls-Royce engine contract which Packard later took. What brought him back was the tremendous pressure on Pratt & Whitney to up its capacity, plus P. & W. executives' respect for the Ford organization, plus Bill Knudsen's quiet insistence that Ford Motor Co. had to find a place in U. S. defense...
Last August, Son Edsel Ford and tough, brilliant Production Manager Charles E. Sorensen visited Hartford, Conn., where Pratt & Whitney had already upped its capacity nearly ten times since January 1939. Abuilding were factory additions which would double the August capacity, give P. & W. a production rate of 17,000 to 20,000 engines a year by late 1941. Said Charles Sorensen: "I did not believe such a stupendous job could be done in such a short time." Then he went back to Detroit, broke ground for an $11,000,000 engine plant there before he got his contract...
...Among inmates of Sing Sing who were given "special privilege" to listen to radioed election returns: Tammany Hall's James J. Hines; New York Stock Exchange's Richard Whitney...
Theory since last month has been that the Army buys all Curtiss-Wright engines, the Navy all Pratt & Whitney engines (for both services). This procedure, supposed to simplify procurement and cut out much red tape and duplication, has helped to do both. But the Army and the Navy are still unable to agree on uniform engines of the same types, still demand their own peculiar furbelows. Result: continued lost motion, wastage, delay...