Word: tycooning
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...trucks and jeeps) or for equipment which the companies had made in World War II. But the chief reason was three years of preparation by the Munitions Board, now bossed by white-thatched, 61-year-old Hubert E. Howard, World War I artillery captain and longtime Chicago coal tycoon...
Despite the vigorous words, the campaign seemed apathetic, a week before the election. Roy Harris was confident. He knew that Talmadge had the big-money support (at a recent dinner, Coca-Cola Tycoon Robert Woodruff toasted Herman: "To the best governor Georgia ever had, sired by the next best governor"). Roy was not worried about the Negro vote: "The niggers are a little disgusted. They thought they were going to get equality and now they have found out they are not. Now you have to pay the preachers to get 'em out." That wasn't worth the expense...
Cooper, in a string tie and Stetson, rides into town to resume his family's feud with Donald Crisp, the local tobacco tycoon and father of Patricia Neal. Teaming up with Jeff Corey, a Connecticut Yankee inventor of a newfangled cigarette-making machine, Cooper ruins Tycoon Crisp, marries his spirited daughter and displays his growing ruthlessness by flexing his jaw muscles and compressing his lip. Along the way are all the standard climaxes-street fights, a shooting, a suicide, fires, foreclosures and pointless lovers' quarrels. At the end, discovering that power corrupts and that none...
...night, Colonel Andres Soriano, a tall, imperious gentleman with, a bristling mustache, is a glittering figure at Manila's diplomatic receptions and society soirees. Soriano loves to dance, is frequently seen cutting elegant capers at the Riviera, Manila's fanciest nightclub. By day, Soriano is an industrial tycoon whose multimillion-dollar interests include the Magnolia Dairy, the San Miguel Brewery, and the Philippine Air Lines. He is also a powerful figure behind the government of President Elpidio Quirino...
From Shekels to Sainthood. In his 57 years Dalmia has won for himself four wives, India's second largest industrial fortune and all the comforts that rupees can buy. About two years ago the tycoon's ambition began to shift from shekels to sainthood. In a frank autobiography Dalmia made it clear that he possessed unusual spiritual qualities: "I shall die peacefully with a smile on my face-an enviable state unattainable by ordinary...