Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nearly all the warplane engines made in the U. S. are produced by two companies: Curtiss-Wright and United Aircraft's Pratt & Whitney division. Last week both companies put out promising engine news. Curtiss-Wright's President Guy Warner Vaughan mounted a tractor-plow, broke ground for a huge new factory at Lockland (Hamilton County), Ohio. Pratt & Whitney's co-founder and chairman, Frederick Brant Rentschler, opened two additions to his factory at East Hartford, Conn., announced that still more space will be ready next spring...
Between them, Messrs. Vaughan and Rentschler now deliver some 1,500 engines (about 2,000,000 h.p.) a month. Thanks largely to orders placed by France and Great Britain last year, this total represents a tremendous advance (Pratt & Whitney, for example, was turning out only 100,000 h.p. a month in early 1939). New shops to be completed early next year will up the joint capacity of Curtiss-Wright and Pratt & Whitney to a phenomenal 4,000 engines a month. Ford, Packard, Studebaker, other automakers should begin to produce aircraft engines late...
Although the President conferred with Secretary Hull, with Admiral Richardson, Commander in Chief of the U. S. Fleet, with C. V. Whitney, chairman of the board of Pan American Airways (just returned from an air tour of the Pacific), the tension in the East was not as great as it sounded in the press. The Japanese hastily piped down their war talk and one-third of the U. S. Fleet idled in California harbors, giving long overdue shore leave to its sailors. But the fundamental crisis in the East was building up to a decision that could not be indefinitely...
...Socialite Jock Whitney, who not only likes to hit the jackpot but invest his money to do good...
Engines. United Aircraft Corp.'s Pratt & Whitney division agreed to expand its plant at East Hartford, Conn., take a $180,000,000 order for 17,000 airplane engines (500 to 2,000 h.p.), expects to begin turning them out (with Navy-owned tools) within eight months. Curtiss-Wright Corp. accepted a $323,000,000 order for 20,000 more engines, 14,000 propellers, will be in production nn the order by next July. -Said Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, announcing the Pratt & Whitney order: "These fellows, as good sportsmen, are willing to take a chance even before Congress...