Word: mogul
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their jobs through the Student Employment Bureau, but six work as part of a larger team for a local Santa mogul. The other two are independents...
Died. Albert Henry Stanley, first Baron Ashfield of Southwell, 73, rags-to-riches London transit mogul, President of the Board of Trade in Lloyd George's World War I cabinet; following an operation; in London. Son of an English railway worker who emigrated to the U.S. in 1879, he started out at 14 as a messenger boy in the Detroit streetcar system, rose to be manager, returned to England in 1907 to reorganize London's subways, finally (with the Labor government's help) unified the city's whole transport system into a single $1 billion public...
...home in Hollywood-surrounded by the film colony, but no part of it. His presence sometimes makes film makers a little uneasy; maybe they're missing something. Every so often the word goes out to Igor Stravinsky-an austere, fastidious and independent little man-that a movie mogul wishes...
...There is no doubt in Kansas City as to who runs the town. It's big Roy Roberts, mighty, cigar-chewing mogul who sits complacently on his throne at 18th and Grand, and pulls the strings that make his puppets in public office jump to do his bidding...
Reached last night in his North Station lair, a minor mogul of the B.&M. admitted he didn't know how long Snotrains have been running;"I couldn't even give you a judicious estimate. But let me toll you one thing, they're all equipped with luxurious modern air conditioned cars, and it only costs $3.25 round trip to North Conway...