Word: tycooning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other: Steel Tycoon Fritz Thyssen...
...armies: the 2,500,000 common S. A. Storm Troops in brown uniforms; the 200,000 S. S. Storm Troops in black uniforms who constitute the picked, super-drilled Nazi Praetorian Guard; and the 200,000 grey-clad Stahlhelm or war veterans organized and led by onetime Soda-water Tycoon Col. Franz Seldte...
...Ferguson, longtime vice president, was elected president of St. Regis Paper Co., succeeding Floyd L. Carlisle, New York power tycoon, who became chairman of the board of directors. In 1931 St. Regis Paper exchanged its extensive stock holdings in Floyd Carlisle's Niagara Hudson Power Corp. for 2,170,000 shares of United Corp., still holds 10% of United Corp.'s stock...
...grade. A boyhood motorcycle accident blinded his right eye. Mechanically inclined, he ran a small garage, saved enough money to buy a second-hand plane which he learned to fly in one hour. Barnstorming around the Southwest took him to Patterson where he met Harry Palmerston Williams, Louisiana lumber tycoon, husband of one-time Cinemactress Marguerite Clark...
Divorced. Mrs. Janet Gladys Campbell, daughter of William Maxwell Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, newspaper tycoon; and Ian Douglas Campbell, cousin and heir presumptive of Niall Diarmid Campbell, 10th Duke of Argyll; in London...