AERONAUTICS: Final Benefaction

The balance of the Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics, when wound up by Donor Daniel Guggenheim last year (TIME, Nov. 11), amounted to $300,000. This bulky leftover was to go to some enterprising southern educational institution. Last week Trustees of the Fund announced Georgia School of Technology at Atlanta to be the final beneficiary. Reasons: Georgia Tech is enterprising. It has an ideal aviation location and environment, high engineering requirements. Its student body is cosmopolitan.

Part of the plan of the Guggenheim Fund was...

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