Word: tycooning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some Europeans still believe that there are wild Indians in Indiana and buffaloes in Buffalo. Most Europeans still believe that Chicago's streets echo daily with gangster gunfire. No such ignoramus is Emile E. C. Mathis, French motor car tycoon who has visited the U. S. many times. Last week he and handsome Mme Mathis were in the U. S. again. One evening in Manhattan they made a gay night of it at swank restaurants and night clubs, winding up with scrambled eggs & coffee at famed Reuben's ("That's All") all-night restaurant on 58th Street...
...expressions of good will toward King George and at the same time do anything I can to support the National Government, particularly Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin.'' Seated on a platform at Oxford University recently, plain Lord Nuffield. who grew up in Oxfordshire from bicycle tinkerer to motors tycoon, was so affected by the intoxicating words in which Oxonians thanked him for giving their medical school $6,250,000 that he got to his feet and cried out he would give Oxford another $3,750,000. explaining that he did so "on the sudden impulse of the moment." Punch...
...troupe would put their foot against a train door and then keep on yanking at the doorknob till they got a man to help them. Norma, more modest, does better, lands a job as Rosmer's secretary. In Manhattan, one J. J. Hobart (Victor Moore), a hypochondriac theatrical tycoon, is being diddled by a pair of lawyers (Osgood Perkins and Charles Brown). Having lost the money he gave them to invest in a musical, they insure his life for a million dollars. Thus is created the master situation of the picture-a contest between Powell, as salesman...
...Plainsboro, N. J. The cream, it was announced, will be preserved by the quick-freezing Birdseye process (named for its inventor in 1925, Clarence Birdseye) which keeps food fresh for two years. Owner of the Birdseye process is General Foods Corp., of which Mrs. Davies, daughter of Cereal Tycoon Charles William Post, is a director and the largest single stockholder...
...Sweringen empire were the two septuagenarian Midwest industrialists who backed the brothers last year when they bought back control of their vast rail and real-estate properties at public auction in Manhattan (TIME, Oct. 7, 1935). These backers were George Alexander Ball, 74, Muncie (Ind.) fruit-jar tycoon and George Ashley Tomlinson, 70, Great Lakes ship operator. The two George A.'s together put up $3,121,000 to buy the key collateral pledged by the Van Sweringens for defaulted loans from a J. P. Morgan & Co. banking group, setting up a concern called Midamerica Corp...