Former government engineer hired by Skyways and recruited by D. D. Harriman to work on the Moon rocket.
Cuisine, Incorporated
Food trust subsidiary of the Harriman corporations.
Delta
Company that advertised that its products would be used in the moon rocket Pioneer.
Daniel Dixon
Chairman of the board of directors of the Harriman Trust. He bought up other members' rights to lunar development, joined the partnership financing the moon trip, and tried to acquire a controlling interest.
President of Two-Continents Amusement Corporation, a Harriman company. Initially he was the only board member besides George Strong and D. D. Harriman to favor developing space travel.
Andrew Ferguson
Engineer and researcher who worked for Harriman & Strong. He was assigned to the moon rocket project.
Woman who filed suit after the explosion of the power satellite, claiming it caused the congenital crippling of her child, who was born at the moment of the explosion. D. D. Harriman adamantly opposed settling out of court, for fear of encouraging similar suits.
Patterson Griggs
President of the Moka-Coka company, cola drink manufacturers. D. D. Harriman visited him to get support for the Moonflight project.
Clem Haggerty
Broadcast executive with whom D. D. Harriman discussed beaming transmissions from the Moon.
Harper-Erickson fuels
Artificial isotopes developed by engineers working for D. D. Harriman. The fuel could be used in space flight. (Developed in "Blowups Happen", but not called there by this name. See Gus Erickson and Cal Harper.)
Charlotte Harriman
D. D. Harriman's wife. She opposed his "wild schemes" such as sending a rocket to the moon.
Delos D. Harriman
businessman and developer whose lifelong dream was to go to the moon. He threw all of his resources and his considerable influence into the project, but was at the last denied the opportunity to go himself. Harriman is mentioned indirectly in most of the Future History stories, mostly in businesses and institutions bearing his name. In "The Man Who Sold the Moon", the following are mentioned: Harriman & Strong, a development firm in which he was a partner with George Strong; Harriman Enterprises, the contractor that financed Space Station One and employed many of the workers on it; Harriman Trust, parent company of other businesses owned by Harriman.
Corporation whose subsidiaries and affiliates included:
Allied Enterprises
Andes Development Company [Probably located in the Andes Mountains of South America; therefore possibly founded to develop launch sites.]
Antipodes Transways
Belt Transport Corporation
Hughes Field [rocket port]
New World Homes (also mentioned in To Sail Beyond the Sunset)
Roadways
Skyblast Freight
Hemisphere Power Building
Building where D. D. Harriman and George Strong attended a meeting of the for the power company syndicate's directors, in which Harriman tried to buy patents related to space travel.
[mentioned in passing] As traditional highways were replaced by automated roadways, communities sprang up along the roadways' routes,and often the roadways were large enough to include buildings and small communities on the moving surface. As the roadtowns grew, many old cities and towns were largely abandoned, and new municipal boundaries were defined by the roadway routes.
Apparently an umbrella organization for the transportation-related companies owned by Harriman & Strong; it made a profit because of a uranium strike in Australia.
Spaceways Ltd.
Corporation founded by D. D. Harriman to explore the possibility of interplanetary travel and development.
Actor whom Montgomery wanted to put in a play to repeat D. D. Harriman's sentiments about the Moon. [The name may be inspired by legendary actors Basil Rathbone and John Wilkes Booth.]
X-fuel
Arbitrary name for atomic isotopes suitable for launching rockets out of Earth's gravity well. [It was discovered in "Blowups Happen" though not called by that name.]
