Word: tycooning
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...Tycoons. The rivalry between Shell and Jersey is an old Shell game. The first great oil tycoon was Jersey Standard's John D. Rockefeller, but the second was an iron-fisted and energetic Dutchman named Henri (later Sir Henri) Deterding, who joined the Royal Dutch Co. shortly after it was founded in 1890 by Dutch nationals, soon took over as its head...
...most influential men in U.S. city planning is neither a licensed architect, a city official, nor an engineer. He is Manhattan Real Estate Tycoon Robert W. Dowling. who at 64 bosses the $53 million City Investing Co., and whose conception of his role makes him an amateur do-it-yourself designer, an inventor and innovator, and a patron of the arts on a grand scale. Bowling's purpose is simple enough. He wants 1) to make money, while 2) enhancing the U.S. landscape with well-planned developments. Says Dowling: "I always think about our place in history. The great...
Walter Paepcke became what is called a patron of the arts, and the patronage has now spread throughout the business world. The first-rate architect is in demand as never before; the painter and businessman are on speaking terms; and no tycoon's home or office seems quite complete without its work of art. This has been one of the major art news stories of the decade, and one of the men who helped write it was Walter Paepcke, who died last week...
...20th century male, who trembles dizzily at the brink of foppishness when he folds a handkerchief into the breast pocket of his sack suit. The rich man of today dresses more plainly, if anything, than his short-form employee, and there are social observers who theorize that the tycoon tries to be inconspicuous because he feels guilty about his wealth...
Died. Arnold M. Johnson, 53, Chicago-born tycoon who worked his way up from a $75-a-month broker's apprenticeship to the vice-presidency of Chicago's City National Bank & Trust Co., later (1954) bought (for $3,500,000) the Philadelphia Athletics and moved the team to Kansas City; of a stroke; in West Palm Beach...