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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Elizabeth ("Betty") Huyler, "flying saleswoman'" of Curtiss-Wright Flying-Service, daughter of the late Frank De Klyn Huyler (candy); and B. Allison Gillies, Vice President of Grover Loening Inc. (aircraft); at Stony Point...
Recent acquisitions include portraits of Sir Nathan Wright, Benjamin Prat, Sir John Maynard, John Williams and Stephen Sewall. The portrait of Maynard is by Kneller and is regarded as one of the finest paintings in the School's collection. Maynard, who served under Cromwell and Charles II, was a great legal scholar and edited the Year Books. The portrait represents him in his red robe as serjeant-at-law and the special head dress--the coif--of the serjeants...
...hour of night flying. To the individual flyer, $9,000 is no great income. But to the operating companies the salary item in the aggregate is enormous. The companies, as they became efficient business organizations, wanted to regularize their salaries, reduce them. None dared until last week. Then Curtiss-Wright Flying Service, which operates two score flying fields in all parts of the U. S., pioneered. The new Curtiss-Wright pay schedule offers as maximum yearly bases: $3,600 to chief pilots; $3,000 to long experienced pilots, plus $3 per hour for single-motored ships, $4 per hour...
Bitter, of course, was the protest of pilots at this grading and economizing. About 50 flying men gathered at once on Long Island. Practical, they admitted to the Curtiss-Wright company: "The economic condition of Eastern pilots in winter prohibits our direct refusal of the terms you offer." Less immediately practical, they telegraphed the National Pilots Association at Cleveland, which is a sort of flyers' union, for permission to join and for its Secretary Carl Francis Egge to go East to organize them...
...aeronautical technicians, engineers and scientists, who usually go unpublicized and little rewarded, Daniel Guggenheim, prime patron of U. S. aviation, created the Daniel Guggenheim Medal Fund. Last week the fund announced its first laureates: Orville Wright and his late brother Wilbur...