However, with GM's Allison Division ( aircraft motors ) lagging in 1953, he stepped in personally to help run the division and find money for a massive investment for a new line of engines that again made the division competitive with Pratt & Whitney.

Gertrude Whitney decided to put the time and money into the museum after the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art turned down her offer to contribute her twenty-five-year collection of modern art works.

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 ).

The gin that Whitney manufactured ( the Holmes design ) reduced the hours down to just a dozen or so per bale.

There are seven named glaciers on Mount Shasta, with the four largest ( Whitney, Bolam, Hotlum, and Wintun ) radiating down from high on the main summit cone to below primarily on the north and east sides.

Although rumors about that shooting have circulated over the decades into Billy Thompson cold bloodily shooting Sheriff Whitney down, that never happened.

Carter attended Eli Whitney High School in Brooklyn, along with future rapper AZ, until it was closed down.

In another Protoball reference, Henry C. Whitney, in Lincoln the Citizen writes of the future President in 1860: " During the settling on the convention Lincoln had been trying, in one way and another, to keep down the excitement ... playing billiards a little, town ball a little, and story-telling a little.

Irwin takes the exam and gives it to Dr. Plecki who, despite his views on cheating, feels that it's their chance to bring down Whitney Young for good.

It is a " semi-historical " account of a canoe trip made by the author during the fall of 1957 down a stretch of the Brazos River in North Central Texas, between Possum Kingdom Dam and Lake Whitney.

Both Whitney Ransick and Dwight H. Little were approached to direct the film but turned it down.

Each of the four Pratt & Whitney JT3C-7 engines had a " degrader " built and installed by General Electric ( GE ) to break down and return the AMK to near Jet-A quality.

In 1981, they carried their kayaks over Mount Whitney Pass at 13, 777 foot elevation, into Sequoia National Park and descended 55 miles down the Kern Trench.

Silas Whitney constructs a gravity railroad to move excavated material down the hill to fill marshy areas to create new land from the Back Bay.

The P-47 was already in production with a Pratt & Whitney radial engine when the XIV-2220 flew successfully in trials in 1945 as a possible upgrade, but the war was winding down and it did not go into production.

Wonder returned to the stadium, but turned down the request to use the same equipment as the present act on the main stage, Whitney Houston.

Throughout his career, he was guest professor at the University of Zürich ( winter semester 1967 / 68 ); at the Freie Universität Berlin ( winter semester 1968 / 69 ); at Columbia University, New York ( Fall 1973 ); at Yale University, New Haven ( Spring 1976 ; turning down an offer to go there again in 1977 ); at the Sorbonne ( Paris IV, winter semester, 1978 ); at the University of Leuven ( Franqui-Professur, 1982 ); at the University of California, Berkeley ( Spring 1982 ); at the University of California ( 1985 ); at Princeton University ( Whitney J. Oates Visiting Fellow, February 1986 ); and at the University of Wisconsin – Madison ( Brittingham Visiting Professor of English, March 1986 ).

Bédard played Whitney Reed closer but also went down in straight sets, 7-9, 2-6, 4-6.

While more recent Muslim immigrants hold Friday prayers at Cape Breton University and the former Holy Redeemer Hall in Whitney Pier.

In one of the many Manhattan properties Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and her husband owned, Gertrude Whitney established the Whitney Studio Club at 8 West 8th Street as a facility where young artists could exhibit their works in 1914.

The school officially opened September 23, 1964, it is still currently active and it is housed at 8 W. 8th Street, the site of the original Whitney Museum of American Art.

A Pratt & Whitney F100 turbofan engine for the F-15 Eagle being tested in the hush house at Florida Air National Guard base.

A group of students including Roger Brown, Gladys Nillson, Jim Nutt, and Barbara Rossi, and teachers at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, including Ray Yoshida and Whitney Halstead, took an interest in promoting his work.

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

His work is in the permanent collections of numerous museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, the Phillips Collection, the Brooklyn Museum, and Reynolda House Museum of American Art. In May 2007, the White House Historical Association ( via the White House Acquisition Trust ) purchased Lawrence's The Builders ( 1947 ) for $ 2. 5 million at auction.

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.

* Feininger retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

: set forth one of the first expansive theoretical treatments of Postmodernism as a historical period, intellectual trend and social phenomenon in a series of lectures at the Whitney Museum, later expanded as Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism ( 1991 ).

Whitney and his teammates used the fast break, sending long passes downfield to riders who had broken away from the pack at a full gallop.

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.

Hassler Whitney at Princeton University introduced the name travelling salesman problem soon after.

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

Whitney traveled widely to solicit support from businessmen and politicians, printed maps and pamphlets, and submitted several proposals to Congress, all at his own expense.

Since then, Mondale has returned to working at the law firm of Dorsey & Whitney and remains active in the Democratic Party.

A 19th-century cotton gin on display at the Eli Whitney Museum in Hamden, Connecticut.

Although simple handheld roller gins have been used since at least 500 AD, the first modern mechanical cotton gin was created by American inventor Eli Whitney in 1793, and patented in 1794.

Banking analyst Meredith Whitney argues that banks will not sell bad assets at fair market values because they are reluctant to take asset write downs.

Pratt & Whitney Machine Tool was going through a period of self-revision at the time to prepare itself for the post – Great War era, discontinuing old product lines and incubating new ones.

He was survived by his life partner of 45 years, David Whitney, who died later that year at age 66.

Sydney's port facilities include the privately owned bulk coal unloading pier in Whitney Pier as well as the publicly owned Sydney Marine Terminal at the northern edge of the central business district.

* Whitney, Robert W., State and Revolution in Cuba: Mass Mobilization and Political Change, 1920 – 1940, Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.

Whatever You ’ re Looking For You Wont ’ Find It here, published by the Kunsthalle Wien to accompany Pettibon ’ s exhibition in 2006 ; Turn to the Title Page, an artist book that was specially created as a part of Pettibon ’ s one-artist exhibition at the Whitney Museum in 2005 ; Raymond Pettibon: Plots Laid Thick published by MACBA in Barcelona, Spain in 2002 ; Raymond Pettibon, published by Phaidon Press, Inc. in 2001 ; Raymond Pettibon: The Books 1978-98, edited by Roberto Ohrt and published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter Konig and DAP, New York in 2000 ; and Raymond Pettibon: A Reader, published by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago in 1998.

* Whitney, Scott 2001 Inventing ' Ohana Honolulu Magazine, September, 2001, pp. 42 – 45

Solo exhibitions featuring Juan Downey ’ s work include Juan Downey: Audio-Kinetic Electronic Sculptures, The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington DC ; With Energy Beyond These Walls, Howard Wise Gallery, New York, NY, ( 1970 ); Video Trans Americas, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX, ( 1976 ); Juan Downey: Video Trans Americas, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, ( 1976 ); Video Trans Americas, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY ( 1977 ); Juan Downey: New American Filmmaker Series, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY ( 1978 ); Juan Downey, Matrix / Berkeley 16, University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA ( 1978 ); Une Forêt ' Videoformes ': Retrospective Juan Downey, Festival de la Création Vidéo, Clermont-Ferrand, France ( 1993 ); Juan Downey: Instalaciones, Dibujos y Videos, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago ( 1995 ), Chile ; Juan Downey: Con energía más allá de estos muros, Institut Valencià d ' Art Modern, Centre del Carme, Valencia, Spain ( 1997 – 98 ); Retrospectiva de Video Arte de Juan Downey, Museo de Arte Moderno de Chiloé, Castro, Chiloé, Chile ( 2000 ); Plateau of Humankind, Honorable Mention: “ Excellence in Art Science and Technology ,” 49th Venice Biennale Chilean Pavilion, Venice, Italy ( 2001 ); and Juan Downey: El ojo pensante, Sala de Arte Fundación Telefónica, Santiago, Chile ( 2010 ); Juan Downey: The Invisible Architect, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY ( 2011-2012 ).

* 2001 Lockheed Martin, Rolls-Royce, Pratt and Whitney, BAE Systems, Northrop Grumman and the Joint Strike Fighter Program Office ; for designing, developing, and demonstrating the Integrated LiftFan Propulsion System

He was elected to the House of Commons for Wycombe in Buckinghamshire at the 2001 General Election following the retirement of Ray Whitney.

In 2001, at the age of thirteen, Stone auditioned for the BBC Television talent show Star for a Night in London singing Franklin's 1968 Goffin-King hit "( You Make Me Feel Like ) A Natural Woman " and Whitney Houston's 1998 " It's Not Right but It's Okay ".

Serra has since participated in Documentas 5 ( 1972 ), 6 ( 1977 ), 7 ( 1982 ), and 8 ( 1987 ), in Kassel, the Venice Biennales of 1984 and 2001, and the Whitney Museum of American Art's Annual and Biennial exhibitions of 1968, 1970, 1973, 1977, 1979, 1981, and 1995.

' The Princess Diaries ' is a 2001 comedy film produced by singer and actress Whitney Houston and directed by Garry Marshall.

In order to attract funds, the administration of the palace has leased the Grand Hall to such high-profile events as Elton John's concert for the elite audience in 2001 and the 2005 exclusive party which featured the likes of Bill Clinton, Tina Turner, Whitney Houston, Naomi Campbell, and Sting.

In 2001, when the company ’ s production fell 15 %, then 25 % and finally 45 %, Pratt and Whitney was forced to make many cutbacks, however it continued to invest between 350 and 400 million dollars annually.

The new curator ( since 2000 ) of the Whitney Museum stated in a 2001 interview on Charlie Rose that he believed it was the responsibility of the Anthology Film Archives to show the work because the work is essentially unsellable and the Whitney was not interested in " renting " video art and films.

* National Museum of Dance Mr. & Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney Hall of Fame Inductees ( 2001 )

Fayard was inducted into the National Museum of Dance C. V. Whitney Hall of Fame in 2001, along with his brother Harold Nicholas.

Harold was inducted into the National Museum of Dance C. V. Whitney Hall of Fame in 2001, along with his brother Fayard Nicholas.

* Johnny Whitney, along with Devin Welch and Hannah Blilie, played in The Vogue ( 1999 – 2000 ), which evolved into Soiled Doves ( 2000 – 2001 ) after the departure of their keyboardist.

He has been the subject of numerous museum retrospectives, beginning in 1983 with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art ( traveling to the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the San Antonio Museum of Art, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art ), the Centre Georges Pompidou in 1989, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in 2000, and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in 2001.

In 2001, Marshall Ulrich was the first runner to complete the " Badwater Quad ", consisting of two back-to-back Death Valley 300s for a total of four consecutive Badwater / Whitney transits.

The mineral rights owned by Vintage pre-exist the monument's creation by President Bill Clinton in 2001 .< ref > Whitney, David.

* Beatrice Whitney Straight ( 1914 – 2001 )

" Exhale ( Shoop Shoop )" is also featured on Houston's compilation albums Whitney: The Greatest Hits ( 2000 ), Love, Whitney ( 2001 ), The Ultimate Collection ( 2007 ), and The Essential Whitney Houston ( 2011 ).