Word: tycooning
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...pulled a small family-owned furniture company from the brink of bankruptcy and built it into the giant Tredway Corp., one of the biggest in the industry. He has done it with boundless energy, and at the expense of his marriage. Bullard is a believable if not always admirable tycoon; he lives "as if ... his soul would be measured on a balance sheet where there was no credit for love." But it was not money that he was after. Dollars, Bullard used to say, "were just a way of keeping score." The thing that kept him going was "his terrific...
Home Life of a Tycoon...
Like the industrial tycoon who likes to call himself a simple country boy, Weizmann would introduce himself as a humble Jew from Motol. He was far more complex. The man from Motol, who came to England's Manchester University as a chemistry lecturer at the age of 32, loved England and English ways. He moved about banquet halls, diplomatic conferences and secret meetings with the aplomb of a great lord, wore an air that had in it traces of Jewish ghetto life, Slavic exoticism and British rectitude. He had none of the frugal, self-denying asceticism of some nationalists...
...went along, rose to vice president of Stone & Webster, and handled the liquidation of some 50 utility companies under the death-sentence clause. Moreover, since Stone & Webster once did a financial study for Standard Gas, he was familiar with the intricacies of its history: its early dominance by Chicago Tycoon H. M. Byllesby, who put the pyramid together, then by Wall Street's Victor Emanuel, later by New Dealers (e.g., Leo Crowley) whom Emanuel brought in to try to work out a plan under the death sentence...
...John Justin laughing with joy as he crashes the sound barrier in a shattering, exquisite moment, and then suddenly breaking into tears from the ordeal of the flight when he lands on the ground; the camera tilting crazily, as if it were careering through the sky, while focused on Tycoon Richardson shakily listening in his office to a radio report of a crucial test. Through the picture, like a macabre musical motif, runs a sonic soundtrack: great swooping wooshes, the piercing wail of the Vickers Supermarine 535 Swift as it dives from 40,000-ft. heights toward the buffeting, invisible...