Word: tycooning
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...hold the patents on staff members' discoveries in medicine and public health, Harvard University set up a special nonprofit corporation called Protein Foundation Inc., with Chester I. Barnard, onetime telephone tycoon (New Jersey Bell) and later head of the Rockefeller Foundation, as chairman. Much of its work will involve patents taken out by Biochemist Edwin J. Cohn, the world's top authority on blood fractions, relating to gamma globulin and methods of collecting and preserving blood substances...
Married. Weetman John Churchill Pearson, 43, the third Viscount Cowdray (grandson of millionaire Engineer-Oil Tycoon Sir Weetman Pearson), reputedly England's richest man; and Elizabeth Jackson, 26, ex-social secretary to Mrs. Lewis Douglas, wife of the onetime U.S. ambassador; he for the second time, she for the first; in London...
...onetime landmark in Bridgeport, Conn, was marked for demolition by a real-estate developer: the full-size house with doll-size furnishings built in 1863 for the 31-in.-high circus midget Tom Thumb, who gained world fame and fortune with Circus Tycoon P. T. Barnum...
...soon as the names of Johns began leaking out, papers all over the U.S. played the story of the trial big. TYCOON ON PAT'S V LIST bannered the Boston Record. The Atlanta Constitution headlined its story: SOBBING CALL GIRL WEEPS OVER NAMES OF LOVE BUYERS. Punned the New York Mirror: SILENT SINERAMA IN SEX DIMENSIONS. Actually, the list of names she mentioned in court was a scattershot blast, as newsmen got it. They were unable to tell which were "clients" and which were mere "acquaintances" of Pat's. Such names as Screen Stars Mickey Rooney and George...
...most ambitious business ventures ever undertaken by an American university, Stanford plans to bolster its $40 million endowment (ninth among the nation's private universities) with the construction of a model community on its 9,000-acre "farm." Left to the university by Railroad Tycoon Leland Stanford, the farm includes some of the richest land in northern California. But the terms of the university charter forbid its sale. For the past 50 years almost its only product has been hay. Now university authorities will let individuals rent the land on 99-year leases. They hope to see schools, homes...