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About to leave for Cuba as U. S. Ambassador, Harry Frank Guggenheim went and had a long talk with his father, Daniel Guggenheim about the latter's Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics which the former has been administering. They discussed the things they had done for aeronautics, the things they wanted to do. A half-million dollars more, they decided, would take care of the final odds & ends of their cultural-industrial project. Then they could consider their self-imposed job done. Dec. 31 this year would be a good day to mark the Fund...
...Close of Southwestern aircraft exposition at Dallas, Tex. Oct. 31-Close of Guggenheim safe aircraft exposition. Nov. 8-10-Intercollegiate aeronautic conference at Columbus, Ohio. Nov. 9-17-Western aircraft show at Los Angeles. Nov. 10-Opening of Hawaiian Airways, Ltd., new inter-island air service. Nov. 11-Dedication of Municipal Airport at Duluth, Minn. Science...
With the War came Mr. Guggenheim's interest in aviation. In March 1917, while taking a holiday in Florida, he saw the U. S. was at the War's threshold. He bought a Curtiss flying boat, took private instruction, and, when War was declared, received a lieutenant's commission in the naval air forces. Sent overseas, he organized naval air stations in England, France, Italy, won from the Italian government the Brevetto Superiore. After the War came another copper interlude, also the development of Chilean nitrate and Bolivian tin. But he was now engaged in the financial...
From this idleness aviation rescued him. Chancellor Elmer Ellsworth Brown of New York University was trying to raise money for an aviation course. He asked Mr. Guggenheim to write a money-getting letter. Mr. Guggenheim wrote the letter, showed it to his father for any suggestions that might improve it. So effective was the appeal that it immediately "sold" Daniel Guggenheim on aviation, resulted in the elder Guggenheim himself establishing the now famed $2,500,000 Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics. It was as president of this Fund that Harry Guggenheim met Charles Augustus Lindbergh just before...
...been Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co., Inc., with Hawk, Sea Hawk, Falcon, Condor (all birds of prey) and Fledgling. Last week Curtiss tested a new and unusually stable biplane. It has Handley-Page wing slots in both leading and trailing edges of its wings and is to compete for the Guggenheim Fund $150,000 safety prizes. The trade name chosen for this new plane was that of the gay and visually charming Tanager...