Word: tycooning
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...fulfill its contract, the railroad must get a train into Tomahawk by an agreed deadline with at least one paying passenger on board. The run starts against some obstacles: hostile Indians, a stagecoach tycoon bent on thwarting the railroad, and the dispiriting fact that the road has run out of track in the 40-mile stretch between Epitaph and Dead Horse Point. With one reluctant paying passenger (Dan Dailey) firmly tied to the locomotive, a caravan headed by a sharpshooting lady peace officer (Anne Baxter) sets out to haul the engine by mule to the point where the track begins...
...collector, Boston Copper Tycoon Quincy Adams Shaw (named for his father's friend, John Quincy Adams) knew what he liked. On a trip to Italy in 1874, he dropped into a small church north of Florence and saw something he liked very much. It was a big, unsigned and undocumented painting of the Nativity, which Shaw felt certain was from the hand of the 16th Century Venetian master, Tintoretto. He bought it and bore it proudly home...
...Steel Tycoon Henry Clay Frick spared no expense to make his art collection one of the best in the world. When he died in 1919 he left $16 million worth of Rembrandts, El Grecos, and English, Italian and French old masters in his block-long mansion on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue...
...Louis Calhern). She wins a coveted Broadway role for which her mother believes herself cast. On the way to a vacation in Rio, Jane rehearses it so convincingly in a deck chair that fellow passengers accept her as the character, who is on the way to unwed motherhood. Coffee Tycoon Barry Sullivan falls under suspicion as the man who did her wrong and is thus under some handicap in wooing Jane's glamorous mother...
...late President's personal and political papers were made available to researchers, scholars and historians. Other fascinating items: i) at the age of eleven, F.D.R. painfully scrawled an essay on Birds of the Hudson River Valley; 2) he once began a novel about a business tycoon, but dropped it after writing only two pages; 3) there was a reference to Joseph Stalin, whom he called "UJ." (for "Uncle Joe") in a 1944 telegram to Winston Churchill...