Word: tycooning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shrewd old "F. A.," with Cleveland Banker Cyrus Eaton and Oil Tycoon Edgar B. Davis, formed Ohio Goodyear Securities Co., a personal holding company, one of whose assets was a big block of Goodyear Tire & Rubber common. Cyrus Eaton presently took this Goodyear stock and put it in a new corporation known as Goodyear Shares, Inc., in which F. A. had an equity. In 1930, spotting trouble ahead for Goodyear, he swapped this equity for 64,554 shares of U. S. Rubber Co. common. Bulk of this latter stock, which was charged off to him at $18 a share, next...
...word "tycoon" originated in Japan. Last week a bona fide tycoon, Takashi Masuda, died in Japan...
...august Chairman Charles M. Schwab and a batch of lesser bigwigs. Mr. Schwab failed to recall what happened between 1927 and 1934 when the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, which he once headed, lost $215,000 on an engineering index. Members sued to recover, and Justice Black found against Tycoon Schwab's "inconceivable ignorance" (TIME, June 20). Last week the Appellate Division delivered a decision, devoid of Justice Black's wit and invective, unanimously reversing his opinion: "Defendants acted in good faith. . . . None profited...
...McKesson & Robbins story ran the gamut from gunrunning to human hair for sale, even included a trapdoor. And at the plot's centre was one of the most incredible characters that ever left fingerprints in the sands of time-the man who moved in Wall Street as Tycoon F. Donald Coster...
...tycoon was once a hero of romantic fiction. Of late he has figured more often as the villain in more realistic pieces: such works as Matthew Josephson's The Robber Barons, Oscar Lewis' The Big Four, Ferdinand Lundberg's America's 60 Families. Last week a novel with good prospects of popularity-Agnes Sligh Turnbull's Remember the End (Macmillan, $2.50)-might well make readers wonder whether even popular romancers have begun to look asquint at success stories...