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From its inception as a largely Government-funded experiment in 1963, America's SST has drawn critical fire. No less a Jovian figure than Charles Lindbergh publicly questioned its advisability, and scientists were debating its possible faults right up to the moment of the vote. Although some of the rhetoric was wrapped in unconscionably scary language, there were at least two reasonable grounds on which to question the plane's viability. Ecologically, the SST would have been a noise polluter unless equipped with extra gear that would severely reduce its payload. Economically, it could have been an aerial Edsel...
...Sands Point, N.Y. Scion of a wealthy mining family, Guggenheim devoted his early years to the family's businesses and foundations, translating his immense enthusiasm for aviation into generous grants that helped establish six schools of aeronautical engineering (including those at M.I.T., Caltech and Stanford), underwrote Charles A. Lindbergh's triumphal tours with the Spirit of St. Louis in 1927, and financed much of Dr. Robert H. Goddard's pioneering research in rocketry. Recruited into public service on several occasions, Guggenheim served as Ambassador to Cuba from 1929 to 1933, then during World War II went into...
...design. He was named the world's outstanding aviator for the year, and President Roosevelt later presented him with the Harmon Trophy. In 1938 he flew around the world in a record 91 hr. 14 min., was given a ticker-tape parade on Broadway that surpassed Lindbergh's. Hughes' big flop of World War II−a 200-ton, eight-engine plywood flying boat dubbed the "Spruce Goose," which was only 11 ft. 4 in. shorter than today's 747 superjet−led to a celebrated joust with Maine's Senator Owen Brewster before...
...American Oil Co. and former president of the American Jewish Committee; in Baltimore. With his father, Blaustein set up the first drive-in gas station in 1915, devised the first pump with a meter that read in dollars and cents, and introduced the first antiknock fuel (it powered Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis to Europe in 1927). As a Jewish activist, Blaustein played a major role in persuading David Ben-Gurion to accept the U.N. plan to partition Palestine in 1948, and in negotiations with West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer for more than $10 billion in reparations...
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