Word: pratt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bazooka Boom. Thus with no fanfare last week, the Ford Motor Co., which made airplane engines in World War II, took on the job of making Pratt & Whitney Wasp Majors for B-36s in Chicago's vast onetime Tucker plant. To boost GR-S synthetic rubber production up to a maximum of 760,000 tons a year, Goodyear and Goodrich rubber companies were asked by RFC to reopen the last two idle rubber plants. And where quick action has been needed, U.S. industry has jumped to the job. Example: to fill the U.S. Army's need...
Residents of Long Island's fashionable North Shore have been watching Killenworth-the late George Dupont Pratt's fabulous 52-room country house-with jaundiced eyes ever since the Soviet Purchasing Commission bought it in 1946. When the Russians rimmed its 37 acres of lawns with barbed wire, set up playground equipment and converted it into a recreation center, nearby estate owners fairly gobbled with indignation...
...million) will get bigger orders for its C124 transports for the Air Force and its Navy F-3-D fighters and AD attack bombers; Lockheed (backlog: $225 million) for its jet-powered F94 Air Force Penetration fighters; Grumman (backlog: $144 million) for its F-9-F Navy jet fighters. Pratt & Whitney, Curtiss-Wright and General Motors' Allison Division were all souping up engine assemblies...
...aviation lay in bigger aircraft, ever more powerful engines. He went looking for a place to build a brand-new air-cooled engine that would outclass the liquid-cooled engines such as the French Hispano-Suiza which then dominated the air world. He found his spot at the Pratt & Whitney tool company, a generations-old firm of precision instrument makers. When Rentschler unpacked his plans for the engine and predicted that the U.S. Navy would need hundreds of them for the planes of its infant carrier force, the shrewd Yankees wasted little time on bargaining. They promised Rentschler...
This week, 62-year-old Fred Rentschler gained another lap in the jet-power race. To mark Pratt & Whitney's 25th anniver sary, he dedicated a new $12 million gas turbine testing laboratory on the banks of the Connecticut River. Oldtimers who examined the concrete-lined testing chambers, in which jet engines will roar full blast in a gas-swirled inferno, were reminded of a classic Pratt & Whitney story. A wartime visitor to the plant, watching blue flames flickering from an engine's exhaust, remarked brightly: "Actually, you people simply are trying to contain and control fire, aren...