Word: tycooning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...half from Cambridge, half from outside. About 200 undergraduates studying physics also work at Cavendish. Its lecture halls are antiquated and barnlike, its benches are uncomfortable. All the buildings are old and ramshackle, except the Mond Laboratory for low-temperature research, for which Sir Robert Ludwig Mond, gas & oil tycoon and amateur scientist, provided $75,000 in 1932. The Mond Laboratory, which has vibration-damping walls and sleek steel and scarlet furniture in the director's offices, has attained the creditable mark of .02° C. above Absolute Zero...
When Lord Leverhulme departed from Washington the British soap tycoon was supposed to go to Boston for the tenth annual Boston Conference on Distribution. That too had an international theme - discussion of a world census of distribution - but with things getting hotter abroad every minute, Lord Leverhulme decided to go home, left his speech to be read to the 400 conferees...
Publisher Frank Ernest Gannett, who last month declared that "no American could refuse the nomination" when British Press Tycoon Lord Beaverbrook boomed him for the Presidency (TIME, Aug. 22), announced that he could not & would not accept the Republican nomination for Governor or U. S. Senator from New York...
Hearing that British Drug Tycoon Philip Ernest Hill (Beecham's Pills. Ltd., Veno Drug Co.) was taking the cure at Carlsbad, the London Investor's Review printed a joshing jingle. Excerpt: I've tried all Beecham's products, I've absorbed the stomach powder . . . Iron Jelloids, Veno's Cough-cure (but my cough got only louder) . . . And so I've come to Carlsbad, and I sip the filthy water . . . Proprietary medicines-are they everything they oughter...
...Corp., bought up enough of them to gain control in a complex deal with RFC. which had its hands on Harley Clarke's key holding company (TIME, July 22, 1935). Harley Clarke was soon shoved out of office and in last week's poker game this toppled tycoon sat quietly on whatever cards he may still hold...