Word: medals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decade before 1930, there had been a medal to award, S. A. E. must have considered among other improvements generally adopted...
Last week in Manhattan, a new medal was awarded for the first time by the Society of Automotive Engineers. It was given to Col. Howard Marmon, vice president and chief engineer of the Marmon Motor Car Co., Indianapolis. Colonel Marmon comes from an engineering family. Nordyke & Marmon, flour mill machinery, was founded by his father in Indianapolis 80 years ago. During the War, Engineer Marmon was one of the developers of the Liberty Motor. Frederick E. Moskovics, president of Improved Products Co. (promoters), onetime officer of Marmon Co., was donor of the award. He stipulated that each year it should...
...tribunal of sport leaders throughout the U. S. said last week about Atlanta's Robert Tyre Jones Jr. Out of a selected panel of ten amateur athletes (TIME, Dec. 1) they named him No. 1, gave him the Amateur Athletic Union's James E. Sullivan Memorial Medal for 1930 as the amateur who "has done most to advance the cause of sportsmanship." Jones got 1,625 votes from the Union's members; Clarence De Mar, runner up, 800; Mrs. Helen Wills Moody...
Millikan Tube. Members of the Radiological Society of North America meeting in Pasadena gave Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan, chairman of California Institute of Technology, a gold medal for a powerful X-ray source developed in his laboratories. The new 650,000-volt tube, the work of Dr. E. C. Lauritsen, is the most powerful ever demonstrated. Dr. William David Coolidge in General Electric Laboratories, Schenectady, has been experimenting for the past year with a 900,000-volt tube not yet perfected for demonstration. Hospitals today use a 200,000-volt tube. Five billion dollars worth of radium (20 Ib.) would...
...Otto K. O. Folin, Hamilton Kuhn Professor of Biological Chemistry at Harvard, recently received the Scheele Medal of the Chemical Society of Stockholm. He is the first recipient of that medal...