Word: tycooning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nice morning for a suicide. Henry Martin Aluin Smith was fed up with life, and he had everything figured out. He was tired of fighting his bouncing old Philistine of a father, candy tycoon of Springfield, Ohio; tired of trying unsuccessfully to get any more money out of him. He had been through the War, had been married and divorced. Last night he had spent his last spare sou. Not for any tragic reason but because there seemed to be nothing else to do he planned to step out of his hired boat into the water of the little Riviera...
Frank Clifford Lowry, sugar tycoon who stepped down one notch to a vice-presidency of National Biscuit Co. last fortnight, resigned to devote full time to his sugar-broking firm of Lowry...
When the Sea Witch was launched in 1846, she was the last word in sharp-bowed clipper design; wiseacres shook their heads, prophesied that any such ship would drive herself under in the first real blow. But old Tea Tycoon Prescott believed in her. He gave her to his crack master, Roger Murray, hoping for many a broken record. On shore a cold dandy, on his quarterdeck Roger was a genius. Though he took chances against all the rules, he had never lost a spar. With him shipped his brother Will as first mate; also his youngest brother Hugh, shanghaied...
Ellin Mackay Berlin, daughter of Telegraph Tycoon Clarence Mackay and wife of Composer Irving Berlin, made her debut as a short-story writer in the Saturday Evening Post. Title: "But Not for Love...
...read. Calling his book a "fever chart," he plots the curves of recent U. S. public opinion, shows how it followed the swoops of economic graphs. Written with wit and wisdom. The Years of the Locust is a serious book not aimed at mental moppets, well worth a tycoon's time...