Word: tycooning
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Just a week or so ago one of the large slick magazines ran an overpowering spread in publications all over the country. The writer of this ad headlined his production "The Tycoon is Dead," and went on to say that the modern big-businessman was not like his predecessors, the hard-headed founders of the giant corporations and holding combinations. The present day Board Chairman is a man whose ways of thinking and acting, the ad explained, were in keeping with the world and the responsibilities...
...this were the entire story we could afford to enjoy the self-satisfied feeling which the advertisement seemed intended to induce. This is obviously not the case. The big problems suggest course titles: business and government, business and labor; and there are enough little tryants around to keep the tycoon's reputation from going completely uncommemorated...
...hard and gritty. Nevertheless, he traveled, met the famous, became well-tailored, suave and bald, and shortened his name to the more fashionable C. Blevins Davis. In 1946, at the age of 45, he married an aging heiress named Marguerite Sawyer Hill, a daughter-in-law of Rail Tycoon (Great Northern) James J. Hill. When she died in 1948, C. Blevins inherited...
...search that took four years. Heading the cast of characters originally created in blackface by Charles Correll and Freeman Gosden in a quartercentury of radio shows: ex-Vaudevillian Tim Moore as the posturing Kingfish; ex-Teacher Spencer Williams as Andy; Actor (Anna Lucasta) Alvin Childress as Amos, the taxi tycoon. The opening show served up the most rudimentary of plots (the Kingfish gets a draft notice by .mistake), but embellished it with slapstick situations reminiscent of the better two-reel comedies of silent movie days. The dialogue is above average; the sight gags (one of the best: the Kingfish owlishly...
...feather trade was bringing in $5,000,000 a year, second only to Kimberley's diamond mines. Wild speculation broke out in land and feathers. Prices flew up to $500 a lb. in 1913, before the inevitable crash. Many an ostrich tycoon went to bed a millionaire and woke up bankrupt. Some of them trekked southward to raise oranges; the gaudy Victorian mansions they had built slowly fell to pieces in a weird jumble of white gables and green cupolas. Max Rose, who came to South Africa from Lithuania in 1890, was one of the few ex-millionaires...