Word: guggenheimers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year told how the greatest Goddard rocket (9 ft. long) exploded 1,000 ft. in the air, disappointed him and so terrified Worcester (Mass.) townspeople that they moved to prevent any further rocket shooting (TIME, July 29, 1929). Last week better news came when it was announced that Daniel Guggenheim, air-minded philanthropist, had given Rocketeer Goddard $25,000 for experiments, would give him $75.000 more in the next three years if needed...
...began tinkering with radio sets when he was 14. Never ceasing to be his hobby, radio became his career. He studied it at Stanford University, kept abreast of its progress during his graduate years at Harvard. After making a survey of aviation economics under a fellowship of the Daniel Guggenheim Fund, he perceived and took radio work for his own cross section of the air industry...
...year Publisher Byoir became the best known, most universally liked American in Cuba, confidant alike of President Gerardo Machado y Morales and Mayor Miguel Mariano Gomez of Havana. U. S. investors in Cuba visit Minister Harry Frank Guggenheim first as a matter of form. When their business gets down to brass tacks they "see Byoir," who now almost amounts to President Machado's Department of Commerce...
...will be abolished, the Government will be recompensed by the new company. New fields will be opened; the price will be sharply dropped, perhaps by as much as $10 off the current price of $42 a ton. Conceivably, a price agreement will be reached with I. G. Farben. Guggenheims. While one great U. S. nitrogen power-Allied Chemical & Dye Corp.-will not take part in this effort at world rationalization, another U. S. group is vitally concerned. A huge investment in Chilean nitrates, amounting to perhaps 35% of the industry, is credited to the Brothers Guggenheim. Of their two companies...
...Daniel Guggenheim gold medal for notable aeronautical achievement: to Dr. Ludwig Prandtl of the University of Göttingen, Germany. He was largely instrumental in the development of the Göttingen series of wing sections, notably in the perfection of the thick wing now successfully used on many transport planes; compiled vast statistical information on aerodynamic experiments, won the Great Gold Medal of the Royal Aeronautical Society of England in 1927, the Grashof Medal of the Verein Deutscher Ingenieure...