AERONAUTICS: Tale of Two Women

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In industry he has stood for high wages, profit sharing with employes (in this he was a leader long before it received general publicity) and high standards of living. He believes in and sets an example of hard work. He also believes in vacations, saying that a man who works twelve months does only eight months' work. As for getting ahead in the world, his maxim is: "Roasted pigeons don't fly into a man's mouth."

*Lady Bailey flew from London to Cape Town one week faster than Lady Heath flew from Cape Town to London (TIME, April 23 et seq.).

†Previously the University had a full four-year course in aeronautics, the first in the U. S.

**Son-in-law of the late Paul Morton, Secretary of the Navy under Roosevelt.

*His brother Simon Guggenheim, Republican Senator from Colorado (1907-13), is also a great giver—$3,500,000 for the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (for his dead son) for scholarships for advanced study abroad, without regard to sex, race, creed or color.

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