Word: tycooning
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...less successful moments of the movie come when the characters attempt to generalize too quickly. Their generalizations about security--those that don't come out of the action itself--and particularly the tycoon's remarks about success are mostly vacuous...
...assiduously wooing labor, dines union leaders 40 and 50 at a time. "When the workers listen to me, they say: 'Poujade is not so bad; he is not against us at all. He is against our enemies, the big trusts.' " The big trusts themselves are interested. Textile Tycoon Marcel Boussac, biggest of French businessmen, owner of race horses and the fashion house of Dior, sent an emissary to sound out this new political phenomenon. "He tried to pull the worms out of my nose," was Poujade's characteristically inelegant reaction...
...stone's throw from its "collegiate Gothic" Green Hall, Wellesley College will put up two ultramodern buildings containing a 350-seat combined theater, lecture and recital hall and a gallery for art exhibitions. The gift of Spokane Lumber Tycoon George Frederick Jewett and his wife (Wellesley '23 and a trustee of the college) and their son and daughter, the buildings will form the Jewett Art, Music and Theater Center. Said President Margaret Clapp of the gift: "Aware of the challenge which automation will present to the good use of leisure time, and aware that women educated through...
Married. Guri Lie, 26, blonde daughter of first U.N. Secretary-General Trygve Lie; and William Zeckendorf III, 26, son of Real-Estate Tycoon William Zeckendorf and a vice president of his father's Manhattan real-estate firm, Webb & Knapp; in Winchester...
...Gority is undoubtedly correct. Any industrial tycoon will tell you that as many deals are closed on the links as in Wall Street conference rooms; and probably more secret information has been communicated over the bridge table than in all the Top Secret meetings of the Pentagon...