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...spring of 1917 the Corporation of Harvard University appointed a Committee on Economic Research, consisting of Professor Charles J. Bullock, chairman, Messrs. Charles F. Adams, '88, Nicholas Biddle, '00, Frederic H. Curtiss, '91, Wallace B. Donham, '98, Edwin F. Gay, Dean of the Business School, Ogden L. Mills, '05, and Eugene V. R. Thayer, '04, to whose number Mr. Robert Amory, '06, was later added. By that time the United States had entered the World War, and there could be no thought of securing endowment for a new scientific enterprise. It had been decided, however, that the first work...
...Curtiss-Reid Flying Service, at Montreal...
...word-portrait of Arthur Curtiss James, "A gentleman funded proprietor, this civilization's best example...
Married. Elizabeth ("Betty") Huyler, "flying saleswoman'" of Curtiss-Wright Flying-Service, daughter of the late Frank De Klyn Huyler (candy); and B. Allison Gillies, Vice President of Grover Loening Inc. (aircraft); at Stony Point...
Bitter, of course, was the protest of pilots at this grading and economizing. About 50 flying men gathered at once on Long Island. Practical, they admitted to the Curtiss-Wright company: "The economic condition of Eastern pilots in winter prohibits our direct refusal of the terms you offer." Less immediately practical, they telegraphed the National Pilots Association at Cleveland, which is a sort of flyers' union, for permission to join and for its Secretary Carl Francis Egge to go East to organize them...