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John D. Rockefeller began to heap up his philanthropies right after his friend and doctor, the late H. L. Biggar, had warned him to cease active business or die quickly. That was 30 years ago, about the time when Andrew Carnegie became aggressive with donations (TIME, June 10). The Carnegie donations became $350,000,000, nine-tenths of the Carnegie fortune. The Rockefeller donations are already $550,000,000, probably not one-half of the Rockefeller fortune. Carnegie philanthropies deal chiefly with education and science, Rockefeller philanthropies chiefly with medicine and education...
...cogitations concerned the materials to be fused to attain speed in and out of Earth's atmosphere. He described two kinds of fuses-one using hydrogen, the other of alcohol-which he calculated would drive a plane 13,120 ft. per sec., or about 9,000 m. p. h., making the 240,000-mile trip in some 27 hours...
...Famed as flying governors are John H. Trumbull (Conn.), Walter J. Kohler (Wisconsin), John Hammill (Iowa), Harry S. Leslie (Indiana), Harry Flood Byrd (Virginia). Governor Fred Warren Green (Michigan) also flies frequently. U. S. Senator Hiram Bingham (Connecticut) is the only Senator who flies frequently. None of President Hoover's Cabinet flies often. Recently Secretaries Adams (Navy), Lament (Commerce) and Davis (Labor) have gone up. Secretary Davis said that he would buy a plane, could he afford...
...James H. McGraw, publisher D.C.S...
Long established, conservative, is the Manhattan brokerage house of F. B. Keech & Co., No. 52 Broadway. Newly opened and modernistic, however, is the Brooklyn office of this same concern. Designed by Mrs. H. Lawrence Carpenter, wife of Brooklyn Office Manager H. L. Carpenter, the Keech & Co. suite in the Williamsburg Savings Bank Building tower is fitted up like the interior of a yacht. Thus ships' bells chime out the hours, and sunlight enters not through windows but through portholes. The office has also a special room for women-traders...