Word: guggenheimer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...invidious asked why Mr. Eastman gave the clinic to Rome instead of to some U. S. city and pointed to Murry Guggenheim, copper tycoon, as a paragon. Mr. Guggenheim and his wife Leonie jointly gave $4,000,000 last summer to build free dental clinics in Manhattan (TIME, July 1). Last week Mr. & Mrs. Guggenheim purchased land for the Manhattan project...
Totally blind flying, solely by the aid of navigating instruments, became an accomplished fact for the first time last week. Lieutenant James Harold ("Jimmy") Doolittle, 33, "best Army Flyer," did it, at Mitchel Field, L. I. Thereby he completed eleven months' experiments for which the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics borrowed him from the Army Air Corps, and which presaged the highest safety in flying through no matter what weather...
...seater, dual control Consolidated biplane was equipped with these new instruments, plus of course the usual flying equipment, and put on the field. Harry Frank Guggenheim, 39, president of the Guggenheim Fund and Ambassador-nominate to Cuba was present. He and Lieutenant Doolittle had an argument. The Lieutenant wanted to fly the plane alone. Mr. Guggenheim, a flyer himself, insisted that Lieutenant Benjamin Kelsey, who had assisted in the research, occupy the front seat, to take control in case accident happened. Piqued, daring (TIME, Sept. 30) Lieutenant Doolittle consented. He crawled into the rear cockpit, hauled an opaque cloth entirely...
...first stage in man's conquest of flying in fog, now aviation's greatest obstacle." Charles Sherman ("Casey") Jones, president of Curtiss Flying Service: "The mechanical perfection of the new instruments employed required thorough testing by an expert pilot before they could be judged." Harry Frank Guggenheim: "The results of the experiment will be made available to any manufacturers of planes or air transport operators who wish to consider equipping their products for this kind of flying...
...Through coöperation of the Guggenheim Fund, U. S. Bureau of Standards, U. S. Army and Navy, Pioneer Instrument Co., Taylor Instrument Co., Sperry Gyroscope Co., Bell Laboratories, Radio Frequency Laboratories, Kollsman Instrument Co., and Professor William Brown of Massachusetts Institute of Technology...