"My family," said Daniel Guggen heim, famed copper man, in sending a $500,000 check, last week, to New York University for the foundation of a College of Aeronautics,* "has long been identified with exploration beneath the earth. We have tried to assist in developments which would make mining more safe as well as more profitable and therefore of the greatest economic value. I have learned through my son, Harry F. Guggenheim, who was one of the first civilians to enter aviation and was a naval aviator overseas during the World War, of the plans of New York University to establish a...
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