Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Engaged. Nancy Whitney, 23, daughter of Richard Whitney, onetime, now incarcerated president of the New York Stock Exchange; and Henry Averell Gerry, polo-playing grandson of Commodore Elbridge Thomas Gerry; in Manhattan...
...University of Michigan: the National Collegiate A. A. swimming meet; for the fourth year in a row; with a total of 45 points; humbling the teams of 35 U. S. colleges and nosing out Yale, its traditional closest rival, by three points; in Yale's magnificent Payne Whitney Pool, at New Haven. Tied with its host in the halfway standings, Michigan clinched the championship in the very last event on the two-day program with a world-record-breaking 3:31 in the 400-yd. free-style relay...
...commitments for the delivery of war goods from U. S. manufacturers who are unwilling to risk expanding for war trade, is for the buyer to put up the capital. Known examples of that practice in World War II are the 50% plant expansions of Wright Aeronautical and Pratt & Whitney, for which France has agreed to pay $4,500,000 to $5,000,000 in surcharges on the engines delivered to them for warplanes...
...hand was the backlog of one of the big machine tool makers, Niles-Bement-Pond Co., which last fall got out of its antiquated 23-building plant in Hartford, Conn., and moved across town to a new factory under a single roof. N-B-P, which operates the Pratt & Whitney* tool works, last week had a backlog of $8,700,000, up 400% from last year. Its bulky president, 65-year-old Clayton Raymond Burt, who served his toolmaking apprenticeship with big Brown & Sharpe back in the early 19005, like the rest of the industry found his plant unable...
...confused with the Pratt & Whitney airplane engine plant, sold to United Aircraft...