Word: tycooning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Calling in reporters, the crotchety, 74-year-old tycoon outdid himself in genial interviews. First he delivered himself about the State of the Nation. Referring to "the prevailing belief that wages should he reduced and prices raised," he declared: "The people are getting a good education in the fallacy of the economic rule now in force. Whenever prices go down and wages up, benefits accrue. Eliminate the greed for money and substitute a little zeal for production and normal conditions soon will return." The liberal New York World-Telegram commented that these sentiments "just can't be matched...
Best-known Greek adventurers of all time have been Homer's Ulysses and the late Sir Basil Zaharoff, munitions tycoon and Europe's ''Mystery Man." Until last week, no one thought of drawing a parallel between the two. Forever Ulysses, a fictionized biography, makes its hero a modern Greek named Ulysses whose career, recalling Zaharoff's, also recalls Ulysses...
Inheritor last January of $1,000,000, most of which "slipped through my fingers like quicksilver," Geraldine Spreckels Spreckels, 21-year-old great-granddaughter of the late rich Sugar Tycoon Claus Spreckels, signed a Warner Brothers contract as a feature player, hopes to play second lead to Bette Davis in Warners' forthcoming Jezebel. Cinemactress Spreckels is currently separated from her Cousin-Husband Adolph Bernard Spreckels Jr., whose third wife she is. Not to be confused with many & many another Spreckels kin, she will act under the name of Anna Johns...
While national attention was focused on the annual Automobile Show in Manhattan last week, a ranking U. S. automobile tycoon rose in Boston to speak his mind. Said President William S. Knudsen of General Motors at a dinner of the Associated Industries of Massachusetts: "Our standard of living has been obtained by narrowing the gulf between Capital and Labor. To widen it will unquestionably tend to lower the standard of living instead of raising...
...Bendix, gaudy, onetime Winner Roscoe Turner was eliminated before the start when his ship caught fire on the ground at Los Angeles. For a time the lead was held by Jacqueline Cochran Odlum, wife of investment trust Tycoon Floyd B. Odlum, only woman entered. She reached Cleveland in third place, won $3,000 plus $2,500 offered to the first woman to finish. The $5,000 second prize went to Earl Ortman of Los Angeles, who nearly lost consciousness for lack of oxygen when he mounted to 22,000 ft. over Kansas to avoid a storm. Winner was wealthy Sportsman...