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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White House confirmed the news from Cuba that the Cuban government had decided that Harry F. Guggenheim, scion of the great mining family, administrator of the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics, would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: Sep. 23, 1929 | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...Army's best flyer and the Guggenheim Fund's safety experimenter, James Harold Doolittle, flew the wings off a plane in which he was practicing inverted dives. He jumped safely with a parachute, and at once put a duplicate plane through the same stunts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cleveland Races & Show | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

Harold F. Pitcairn has the U. S. rights to the autogiro manufacture and license. He is building four of them now at Bryn Athyn, all larger than the demonstration machine, all to carry Wright Whirlwinds. Last week's autogiro will be entered in the Guggenheim Fund safety contest, en trance to which closes in October. First prize is $100,000. Five other prizes are for $10,000 each. Chief contenders are the Cierva Autogiro and the Handley-Page slotted-wing plane. Only a Brunner-Winkle biplane of the 11 U. S. entries (including one of the Autogiros being built...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Cierva Autogiro | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

...Museum. Another was Samilla Love Jameson (married name: Heinzmann) who lately completed a bust of Tammany's 100-year-old Grand Sachem John Richard Voorhis (TIME, Aug. 5). She offered to sell the bust to the highest bidder for money to help the cause. Others were Tamara Loeb, Guggenheim prize winner in sculpture and W. B. Graham, dance critic. All attested to Dreyfuss's sanity and volunteered to post a bond to insure against his becoming a public charge should he be released...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Dreyfuss Case | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

Delinquent Postmasters. Postmaster-General Walter Folger Brown last week reminded 1,500 postmasters of communities with populations between 1,000 and 50,000 to help the Guggenheim Fund get their cities air-marked. The Postmaster-General threatened to shame delinquents publicly by printing their names. Two thousand postmasters had got town roofs well marked. Three thousand others are exhorting their citizens to do likewise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: Aug. 19, 1929 | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

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