Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Announced by Ford Motor Co. (which refused to build Rolls-Royce aircraft engines if the British were to get any) was an agreement with United Aircraft Corp. to build 4,000 Pratt & Whitney air-cooled engines...
...Dwight Whitney Morrow, acting Smith College president and mother-in-law of Charles Lindbergh, saying: "Count on five votes from my family...
Result is that in spite of a socialite board of directors (including John Hay Whitney, Marshall Field III, Philip K. Wrigley, Lessing Rosenwald), PM has a leftist aroma. Fortnight ago, when a sheet was passed around newspaper offices, accusing various members of his staff by name of being Communists or Communist-sympathizers, Publisher Ingersoll published the charges, invited FBI to investigate...
Apprentice Schools: Operated by a few large plants, training a few thousand technicians and mechanics. Examples: Pratt & Whitney (enrollment: 272); Curtiss-Wright Technical Institute (enrollment: several hundred Army Air Corps men, 1,000 civilians...
...forced railroads to pay unreasonably high prices for rolling stock; 4) prevented the roads from using lightweight, streamlined equipment made by competitors. Caught in the suit's 80-page web were Pullman Directors J. P. Morgan, Harold S. Vanderbilt, Richard K. Mellon, Alfred P. Sloan Jr., George Whitney, others-as potent a list of defendants as ever graced a civil action. (Since the Government, through reports filed with ICC, has long been aware of the practices to which it is objecting, Trustbuster Arnold considered a civil action "more appropriate" than a criminal...