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Basically, his device sounded an alert when the plane was in danger of not having enough lift to stay flying. This alert would allow time for the pilot to take corrective measures. Since its invention, this device became standard equipment for all aircraft and has also helped reduce the number of
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patients. This organization has 500 participating corporations who generously offer their empty seats to cancer patients. CAN flies more than 2,500 cancer patients a year. To date, the organization has flown more than 50,000 patients to treatment centers nationwide.
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on June 8, 1918. Max Greene, his chemist father, and Lyn Furman Greene, his artist mother, encouraged their son to create his own toys. His parents made him a gift of their old stove, which he could take apart. Greene experienced poverty as a youth during the
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After developing the Stall
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who interrupted dinner. When a pitchman called, the harassed resident could press a code that alerted the marketer that he would be liable for a surcharge for continuing the call.
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Seeking a broader forum and greater impact for his ideas, in 1974 he founded and financed the
Institute for Socioeconomic Studies (ISES), a small policy research organization in
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In the mid-1940s, Greene developed the first practical way to warn the pilot of the aerodynamic stall. His first design and apparatus included threaded
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615:, the only undergraduate sailing club ever to participate, the Courageous Syndicates 1986 run at the Cup spearheaded Greene's campaign to restore the
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and provides escape guidance. He developed the latter in the late 1970s after a series of wind-shear-related crashes that claimed hundreds of lives.
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ideals of amateur sportsmanship to the competition, and more broadly, to team sports in general. Despite several of Greene's modifications to the
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department store family, died in 1965. Greene's third marriage was to Joyce Teck Meller in 1967, which also ended up in divorce in 2005.
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Greene, Leonard. Free enterprise without poverty. 1st Edition. New York: Norton, 1981.
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Price, Wesley (October 1947). "Look Out! She's Stalling!".
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is imminent. To build the device, Greene established the
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Polytechnic Institute of New York University alumni
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713:Award for Meritorious Service to Aviation (1996)
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133:Private Sector Initiative Commendation of the
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705:National Business Aviation Association
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683:U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
601:races before buying two-time winner
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585:who had just received treatment in
494:Institute for Socioeconomic Studies
415:Inventorship: The Art of Innovation
209:. The cause was complications from
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457:Safe Flight made Leonard Greene a
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438:in 1994, that would use a hollow
298:Doctor of Civil Law honoris causa
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287:Guggenheim School of Aeronautics
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1072:City College of New York alumni
648:National Inventors Hall of Fame
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203:National Inventors Hall of Fame
140:National Inventors Hall of Fame
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672:Award for Lifetime Achievement
642:President of the United States
221:Leonard M. Greene was born in
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786:U.S. patent 4,855,738
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