Word: tycooning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...smart technician who is head of the County of London Electric Supply Co.; Mrs. Gertrude Ruth Ziani de Ferranti, widow of England's famed electrical inventor; France's Minister of Public Works Armand Galliot who is particularly interested in an automobile that will burn anthracite coal; Utility Tycoon Gustave Mercier whose poker-faced wit made power men merry; Holland's young Professor James Van Staveren with curly brown shovel-shaped beard; India's Rai Dahaden Agarwal and his wife Mme Kapoorsundri Agarwal in her embroidered shawl; Lithuania's Jurgis Ciurlys, director of machines...
...reduce interest charges by retiring 5 ½%, 6 ½% and 7% obligations of Goodrich and its subsidiary, Hood Rubber. This plan was blocked when only 74% instead of the necessary 75% of the stockholders approved. Nigger-in-the-woodpile was Cleveland's once famed banker and utility tycoon Cyrus Stephen Eaton, whose old firm, Otis & Co., having been refused a share in underwriting the proposed issue, circularized Goodrich stockholders to prevent approval of the mortgage (TIME, July 29, 1935). Thus for a whole year that tire went unfixed. Last month, however, New York Referee John Godfrey Saxe finally squelched...
Inaugurated. Robert Sidney Maestri, 47, squat, swarthy New Orleans real estate tycoon, a political heir to the late Huey Long; as the city's first bachelor mayor; after certification by Louisiana's Governor Richard Webster Leche. Because no opponent appeared, no election was necessary...
Left. By the late Mantis James Van Sweringen, Cleveland's onetime railroad and real-estate tycoon; to his brother, Oris Paxton Van Sweringen: an estate of $3,067.85; in Cleveland...
...this fifth installment Author Romains sticks mainly to industrial and political developments; some of the earlier characters do not even appear. Tycoon Bertrand's automobile factory booms, and Bertrand's fortunes are furthered by joining forces with Champcenais and the sinister armament-maker, Zülpicher. Briand is shown briefly at the Republic's helm, while Gurau, the ambitious politician, bides his time until he can get the Cabinet post he wants. The Abbé Mionnet, sent to tighten up discipline in a provincial diocese, nearly gets in trouble himself when rumors of his liaison begin...