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Word: daniells (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pilot, the man whom Fund President Harry F. Guggenheim has fostered for two years in order to focus U. S. attention on aviation?Charles Augustus Lindbergh. With Mrs. Lindbergh he had returned in his motor cruiser Mouette from honeymooning off the New England coast to the estate of Daniel Guggenheim, Fund creator, and was ready for work. He first flew Harry F. Guggenheim for 15 minutes in the Brunner-Winkle craft. Then he took Mrs. Lindbergh up for a ride in a Curtiss Falcon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Safe Flying | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

...years ago Daniel Guggenheim, whose Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics has helped U. S. aviation more than any other private agency, resigned from most of his business connections to give himself to benevolencies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Safe Flying | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

...Guggenheim fortune began with laces and embroideries in Philadelphia, whither Meyer Guggenheim migrated from Switzerland in 1848. Meyer and Barbara Myers Guggenheim had seven sons. Daniel went to Switzerland when he was but 17 to buy goods for the Philadelphia store. While he was away his father invested in some Colorado mines. When Daniel returned to the U. S. the family moved their lace & embroidery business, as M. Guggenheim's Sons, to Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Safe Flying | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

...very prosperous. But the mining investments promised more fortune. The sons sold the lace & embroidery business and went to Colorado. They finally consolidated a great lead and silver industry. The sons are noted in U. S. business for working as a unit. Daniel's ability was rated akin to genius. After his father, he was the leader of the Guggenheims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Safe Flying | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

...brothers organized the American Smelting & Refining Co. and the Chile Copper Co. (cheapest and greatest copper producers). They developed copper mines in Alaska, tin mines in Bolivia and nitrate beds in Chile. Daniel Guggenheim, with the late Thomas Fortune Ryan and Bel gian, French and Portuguese financiers and politicians, worked up diamond mines in the Congo region. The Guggenheims, Daniel and his brothers, attribute much of their fortune to their hiring experts at no matter what cost and to maintaining the welfare of their employes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Safe Flying | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

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