Word: guggenheimers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philadelphia engineer named Haviland H. Platt applied for patents on a revolving-wing in 1927. has been quietly developing it ever since. A large model was designed in consultation with Professor Alexander Klemin. director of New York University's Daniel Guggenheim School of Aeronautics. Currently the Government is closely observing the Platt tests...
Died. Carrie Sonneborn Guggenheim, 74, relict of Manhattan Copperman Isaac Guggenheim (1923 estate: estimated $25,000,000; 1932 estate: $10.000,000); of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills, Calif...
...nitrate monopoly. Organized to enable the big producers of natural nitrates to pool their interests in the battle against synthetic nitrates and to give the Government a strong voice in exploitation of Chilean reserves, Cosach has been crippled by Depression. Two representatives of the Government and one of the Guggenheim Brothers will direct the liquidation...
...returns were good must understand that they cannot consider discharging their Chilean employees now that times are bad!" Last week Chile's "Lion" made clear that this ultimatum stands. From a practical standpoint it has dominated for the past few months relations between such super-corporations as the Guggenheim nitrate colossus Cosach and the Chilean Government. Speaking off the record, Cosach President Whelpley is understood to have said recently: "If it were not for public considerations we should close down all our plants and wait for nitrate prices to rise." Instead Cosach is operating its least efficient plants, thus...
...when graduated from the Columbia School of Mines in 1898. Since then he has traveled the world, turning up whenever a big mining development was starting, usually leaving with a fat wad of shares in his portfolio. Once consulting engineer for Utah Copper, he has been affiliated with the Guggenheim Brothers and John Hays Hammond. In 1911 he was associated with Herbert Clark Hoover in the successful flotation of unsuccessful Granville Mining Co., formed in London to acquire Yukon placer claims. Two years ago his mining work in Jugoslavia secured him the Grand Cordon of the Order of St. Sava...