Word: tycooning
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...seven years, San Francisco's Shipping Tycoon R. (for Robert) Stanley Dollar has waged a lone battle against the U.S. Government. His object: to force the Government to give him back the old Dollar Steamship Lines (now American President) which he had lost in 1938 when he could not pay a $7,500,000 Government loan (TIME...
...give his name to the college: Portland steamboat and mining Tycoon Simeon Gannett Reed, who put up the first money...
Fast clipper ships replaced the slow-moving East Indiamen, and China tea was the profitable cargo. To prevent idlers from wasting his business hours, Merchant Jardine kept no chair in his office but his own. He made huge deals with Bombay Tycoon Jamsetjee Jeejeebboy. Hundreds of young Englishmen, attracted by high wages & high life, flocked to China. Race tracks were built, blood horses imported. Gibb, Livingstone & Co. (John Gibb was a member of the Race Club Committee) never questioned the living expenses of their young employees unless the soda-water bills for their mess exceeded $500 a month...
...Jeanne Grain) almost misses the marital boat by being assistant mother to her younger brothers and sisters. Ernestine (Barbara Bates) has a crush on a college sheik. Budding Belle Martha (Debra Paget) charms an Amherst man when she blossoms out in a bathing suit. Even Widow Gilbreth temporarily titillates Tycoon Edward Arnold...
...Hearst's New York Journal. Three years later N.A.N.A. sent her to Hollywood. After her divorce, she was the great & good friend in his last years of life-weary Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald (and claims that she was the inspiration for the Hollywood girl in The Last Tycoon). After Fitzgerald died, Sheilah was married for six years to British aircraft production Expert Trevor Westbrook, and bore him two children: Frances, now nine, and Robert, six. With the children, Sheilah lives on "something under $50,000" a year in a pleasant stucco house only four doors away from Queen Louella...