Word: tycooning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Settled, The claim of Frank Brandon Smith Jr., Charlotte, N. C. hardwareman against his onetime father-in-law, Towel Tycoon Joseph F. Cannon. Thrice Plaintiff Smith took to court his charge that Towelman Cannon had disrupted his marriage with Anne Cannon Reynolds Smith, who previously had divorced the late Zachary Smith Reynolds (Camels). Plaintiff Smith had sued for $250,000 balm, got $12,600 out of court...
...televisors, announced to the Institute of Radio Engineers a new cold-cathode amplifier which he believed would be immensely useful to radio in general, to television in particular. Mr. Farnsworth, who despite his flair for electronics has learned to talk like a tycoon, calls his new tube the multipactor. Ordinary thermionic tubes generate electrons by boiling them from a hot filament. The multipactor takes advantage of the fact that certain metals hold electrons in suspension on their surfaces in such a way that impacts from outside electrons release them. When the current in the multipactor is turned on, random electrons...
...number adds a dash of satire to the run of rollicking fun. In "The Ghost Goes West," Robert Donat, last of the clan of Glourie, is forced to sell his ancestral castle at the moment Jean Parker happens along. He persuades her father (Eugene Pallette) a multimillionaire chain store tycoon, to buy the fortress and transplant it to the bonny banks of Florida. But unfortunately, a jolly philandering Glourie disgraced himself two centuries before, and was doomed to haunt the castle to take revenge on the enemy, clan MacLaggan. With Donat the man and Donat the ghost both...
Already a diamond tycoon at 20, Cecil Rhodes is given "six months to live" by a Dr. Jameson (Basil Sydney), who examines him in South Africa in 1873. Ten years later he is not only still alive but master of South African diamond mines. With the help of Dr. Jameson, now his best friend, he pushes on to fulfill his lifelong ideal-to unite South Africa, then the whole world, under the British Empire. His first step is to absorb Matabeleland, lush jungle nation ruled by King Lobengula. As Premier, he next tries to get Transvaal, ruled by the Boers...
...party of the winter thronged some 400 guests to sip champagne, eat strawberry ice, listen as Banker Edward Townsend Stotesbury celebrated his 87th birthday by rattling a snare drum as he did in the Civil War. A hale, hearty, dapper little man, Host Stotesbury, Philadelphia's richest tycoon, senior partner in J. P. Morgan & Co., was also persuaded to sing his favorite song. The Old Family Toothbrush that Hangs in the Sink...