President Herbert Hoover presents the NACA's first Collier Trophy to Chairman Joseph Ames in 1929 for the NACA engine cowling.
President Herbert Hoover presents the NACA’s first Collier Trophy to Chairman Joseph Ames in 1929 for the NACA engine cowling. Interestingly, in 1932 Hoover signed an executive order to abolish the NACA to “increase government efficiency.” But Congress reversed this change in 1933 and the NACA began dramatic growth under President Roosevelt’s New Deal.
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