Word: guggenheimers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Goldman has never missed a concert and, with audiences of from 15,000 to 50,000, believes he has played to more people than anyone else in the world. Backed at first by a number of rich New Yorkers, the Goldman concerts later became the private benefaction of the Guggenheim family (copper), are now called the Daniel Guggenheim Memorial Concerts for the charitarian who died five years ago (TIME, Oct. 6, 1930). At last week's celebration Mayor LaGuardia presented his city's Certificate of Honor for Distinguished Service to modest, greying Widow Florence Guggenheim. Turning from...
...gasoline tank afire. Many a peacetime flyer perishes in a crash from which he would have emerged with nothing but bruises had not his fuel burst into flame. A new fuel designed to stop such tragedies was demonstrated this week at New York University's Daniel Guggenheim School of Aeronautics by its inventor, a towering, beefy, Prussian-born chemist named Adolph Prussin. The fuel, called "Solene," is gasoline which has been turned into a solid...
Chemist Prussin has been tinkering with fuels for 16 years. Five years ago he went to the Guggenheim School with a solid fuel that ran a test engine-but the engine stopped after a few minutes. Nevertheless the Guggenheim officials were interested, and six months ago gave him facilities for further research. Now all he needs to make Solene is a big kettle, twelve minutes, two solidifying agents which he has decided to keep secret for a while...
Supervising designer of the new Boeing is modest Claire Egtvedt, Boeing's $20,000-a-year president. Claire Egtvedt got his taste for flying as a young ski-jumper in Wisconsin, followed it up with a course in aeronautical engineering at the University of Washington's Guggenheim School...
...from the Kennecott district Indians in the 18th Century to cast a bell. A hundred years later two grizzled sourdoughs stumbled upon what looked like grass on the mountainside at Kennecott, found pure copper ore. A taciturn young engineer named Stephen Birch bought their claims. With backing from Daniel Guggenheim, a railroad was pushed up the Copper River Valley, and the Kennecott mine opened in 1911. The first year of operation (1912), more than $20,000,000 in copper rolled down the rails to Tidewater. In 1915 Kennecott Copper Corp., a holding company, was organized to take over the mine...