In England her evolving major project, ' Dartington Hall ', was for Dorothy Whitney Straight Elmhirst in Devon ( 1932 – 37 ).

* Beatrice Straight, member of Whitney family, actress

He flew his Miles Whitney Straight airplane as far as Egypt, Singapore, and Bali.

Other Apostles accused of having spied for the Soviets include Michael Whitney Straight, Victor Rothschild and Guy Liddell.

The New Republic was founded by Herbert Croly and Walter Lippmann through the financial backing of heiress Dorothy Payne Whitney and her husband, Willard Straight, who maintained majority ownership.

Amongst other members, also later accused of being part of the Cambridge spy ring, were the American Michael Whitney Straight and Victor Rothschild who later worked for MI5.

* May 14 – Miles Whitney Straight

* Michael Whitney Straight, American magazine publisher, member of the Whitney family, Presidential speechwriter ( 1936 )

Payne was also the great-grandfather of Michael Whitney Straight, one of the USSR's best spies.

* Miles M. 11 Whitney Straight, a 1936 two-seater light aircraft

* 1940-1942 Miles Whitney Straight

* 1938 Miles Whitney Straight

In 1914, Willard Straight and his wife Dorothy Payne Whitney provided the financing for Croly's magazine, The New Republic.

* Dorothy Payne Whitney ( 1887 – 1968 )-married ( 1 ) Willard Dickerman Straight ; ( 2 ) Leonard Knight Elmhirst

He has another brother, Ivan Steers, and five stepsiblings from his mother's second marriage to editor Michael Whitney Straight.

Initially fertilizer and seed were dropped together ( 1939 ), using a window mounted chute on a Miles Whitney Straight, but by the end of the 1940s different mixtures of fertilizer were being distributed from hoppers installed in war surplus Grumman Avengers and C-47 Dakotas, as well as some privately operated de Havilland Tiger Moths in New Zealand, and the practise was being adopted experimentally in Australia and the United Kingdom.

" The Brighton event was won by Whitney Straight and according to Denis Jenkinson: " Flitting round the periphery of the team was James Robertson-Justice.

One of the wealthiest women in America in the early 20th century, Dorothy Whitney Straight was a philanthropist, social activist, supporting women's trade unions, educational and charitable organisations such as the Junior League of New York, becoming the first president of the Association of Junior Leagues International Inc. in 1921.

* Whitney Willard Straight ( 1912 – 1979 )

* Beatrice Whitney Straight ( 1914 – 2001 )

* Michael Whitney Straight ( 1916 – 2004 )

Beatrice Whitney Straight ( August 2, 1914 – April 7, 2001 ) was an American theatre, film, and television actress.

Born in Old Westbury, New York, Straight was the daughter of investment banker Willard Dickerman Straight and Dorothy Payne Whitney.

William F. Miller was interim CEO until September of that year, when Whitney G. Lynn became interim president and CEO and then continued to have a succession of CEOs including Dale Fuller and Tod Nielsen.

When the club folded after the 1870 season, Wright was hired by Boston businessman, Ivers Whitney Adams to organize a new team in Boston, and he did, bringing three teammates and the " Red Stockings " nickname along ( Most nicknames were then only nicknames, neither club names nor registered trademarks, so the migration was informal ).

A Synagogue in Sydney serves a small historic Jewish community which was once one of the largest ones in eastern Canada with four shuls: one in Glace Bay, one in New Waterford, one in Whitney Pier, and the one in Sydney.

During his stay in New Guinea, he was invited to accompany the Whitney South Seas Expedition to the Solomon Islands.

Eli Whitney ( December 8, 1765 – January 8, 1825 ) was an American inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin.

The Whitney was founded in 1931, as an answer to the then newly founded ( 1928 ) Museum of Modern Art's collection of mostly European modernism and its neglect of American Art.

Eventually in 1972, just one month before his death, Yoakum was given a one-man show at the Whitney Museum in New York City.

In 1974 the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York held a major retrospective of his work, and in 1983 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

She was a choreographer for Whitney Houston's world tour from 1988 – 1992, and also appeared as a dancer in Natalie Cole's video for " Pink Cadillac " in 1988.

A major retrospective exhibition of Lyonel Feininger's work, initially at the Whitney Museum of American Art during June 30-October 16, 2011, was subsequently due to run at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts during January 20 – May 13, 2012.

One of the most advanced reciprocating engines ever made was the 28-cylinder, Pratt & Whitney R-4360 " Wasp Major " radial engine.

Despite objections from shareholders such as Joan Whitney Payson, majority owner Horace Stoneham entered into negotiations with San Francisco officials at around the same time that the Dodgers ' owner Walter O ' Malley was courting the city of Los Angeles.

The track was included on the album Whitney: The Greatest Hits.

Though the Court upheld a law prohibiting the forgery, mutilation, or destruction of draft cards in United States v. O ' Brien,, fearing that burning draft cards would interfere with the " smooth and efficient functioning " of the draft system, the next year, the court handed down its decision in Brandenburg v. Ohio,, expressly overruling Whitney v. California, ( a case in which a woman was imprisoned for aiding the Communist Party ).

William E. Swing the URI Charter was developed through a series of international conferences and consultation with transformative organizational design practitioners David Cooperrider and Diana Whitney.

The civil engineering firm Ammann and Whitney was named lead contractor.

The first game was between the New York / New Jersey Hitmen and the Las Vegas Outlaws at Sam Boyd Stadium in Whitney, Nevada.

One of the most prominent champions of the central route railroad was Asa Whitney ( a distant cousin to cotton gin inventor Eli Whitney ).

Legislation to begin construction of the Pacific Railroad ( called the Memorial of Asa Whitney ) was first introduced to Congress by Representative Zadock Pratt.

Whitney saw a version of the central route completed, although he was not formally involved.

Production capacity in Britain and the United States was improved by the invention of the cotton gin by the American Eli Whitney in 1793.

He was posthumously inducted into the National Museum of Dance's Mr. & Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney Hall of Fame in 2004.

The contractor for the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Boosters was Morton Thiokol ( now part of Alliant Techsystems ), for the external tank, Martin Marietta ( now Lockheed Martin ), and for the Space Shuttle main engines, Rocketdyne ( now Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, part of United Technologies ).