Word: tycooning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Palm Sunday big, breezy William Wrigley Jr., Chicago gum tycoon, got an idea about cotton. On Monday he developed it. On Tuesday he announced that his company would (in effect) barter gum for cotton in the south, would use all sales receipts in that territory to buy up to 100,000,000 Ib. (200,000 bales) of cotton during the next eight months. The market price would be paid, provided it did not exceed 12? per Ib. Last week in the spot markets of the South cotton was selling around...
...bartender or the owner: 'Aren't you ashamed to be in such a contemptible business?' " Amos (Freeman F. Gosden) and President Matthew Scott Sloan of New York Edison Co. were guests of Bernard Gimbel, department-store man, at a luncheon in Manhattan. Chaffed Tycoon Sloan: "Now tell us, what made Madame Queen faint in the courtroom?" Retorted Amos: "She saw her electric light bill...
...real life could such characters come together on such everyday terms: Professor Pembauer, poor but profound piano-teacher; beautiful Actress Rose Grogarty; Mr. Gambrino, carousel-pro-prietor with operatic ambitions; Miss Arbuthnot, acidulous Australian novelist; Mrs. Connor, thrifty but romantic hairdresser; possessive Tycoon Julian Heaven-street; Mrs. Heavenstreet, who felt herself to be a woman but was all bound round with committees. The plot is artificial but, as in real life, the puppet-characters are pulled by strings of desire. Tycoon Heavenstreet wants to protect beautiful Miss Grogarty; Hairdresser Connor wants to possess romantic Mr. Gambrino. With the help...
Divorced. Socialite & Clubman Anthony Joseph ("Tony") Drexel Biddle Jr.; by multimillionairess Mary Duke Biddle, daughter of the late tobacco tycoon, Benjamin Newton Duke; secretly; at Newburgh, N. Y. Corespondent: an unnamed Berlin woman. Mrs. Biddle made a gala of the occasion, led a motorcade of friends to the court...
...Chicago, was met there by delegates from his Zion City, 40 miles north upon the Lake Michigan bluffs. Joyously they told him that Zion City, free from vice and wickedness, has not known the sorrows which Depression has visited upon other cities. And, unlike many a less fortunate tycoon, Dr. Voliva found himself no poorer after his jauntings. If what he says is true, he is still many times a millionaire, still has a gross income of $6,000,000 a year...