Word: tycooning
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...opened a picture gallery, where he helped launch the career of Salvador Dali. Switching to fashion during the Depression, Dior first made his mark as a hat designer. After World War II service as an enlisted man, he was one of Lucien Lelong's top designers when Textile Tycoon Marcel Boussac decided to back a new fashion house. Boussac...
...Kurt Bonine is merely the latest. Almost all of them are millionaires, and the effect Helen has on them is generally deadly. She drove Brett Chapman, millionaire ' rancher, to exile in South America. Dwight Swanson, oilman, piloted his plane into a crash and died. Kelcey Spencer, motion-picture tycoon, went off a cliff to his death. But Dick Waring, a madman, was sane only with Helen...
...fantastic growth of the surrounding population-the very situation that led to the closing of Roosevelt Field -set the promotional and moneymaking gears of Real-Estate Tycoon William Zeckendorf to whirring. Why not build an integrated shopping, office and industrial center to cash in on the growth? Last week, unlike many a Zeckendorf production, this one was actually nearing completion...
...tonners owned by his brother-in-law, Stavros Niarchos. Onassis' 135-ft.-wide, 935-ft. long ship would cruise at 16 knots, carry a crew of 70. It probably will be built by Bethlehem Steel Corp.'s Shipbuilding Division at Quincy, Mass. Along with the supertanker, Tycoon Onassis' also plans three smaller ships-two tankers of 32,650 tons apiece, another of 46.000 tons...
...years Jack and Billy had a good thing going for them in a variety of rackets. At last, like many another tycoon in the full flush of success, they took to writing their memoirs. Announcing his retirement last year, Billy hired a ghostwriter and turned out a book called Boss of Britain's Underworld. Jack produced a rival series of articles for the Sunday Chronicle, describing in glowing terms his own rise to power. The Jack Spot memoirs hit their high point with the boast that he had mustered an army of 1,000 hoods armed with Sten guns...