Word: tycooning
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...Asking nothing of the world, the shmoo gave everything: butter, milk, eggs, boneless meat, building materials (of sliced shmoo), suspender buttons (of shmoo eyes). Wherever shmoos went-and they multiplied like speeded-up guinea pigs-no one had to work any more. Capitalists thought this a menace, so Pork Tycoon J. Roaringham Fatback sent "shmooicide squads" to wipe out the shmoo. They succeeded, except for two shmoon (pl.), boy & girl, which Li'l Abner saved for Capp's future...
...hustlers from Harvard's own school for hustlers--the Business School across the Charles--chipped in 300 Philip Morris wrappers apiece last week to take top honors in the cigarette company's football prediction contest and snared an Admiral television set for the Tycoon Club...
Died. James Herbert Wilkerson 78 famed racket-busting federal judge, who sentenced Al Capone to prison in 1931; in Chicago. Judge Wilkerson also tried Utilities Tycoon Samuel Insull and Racing Form Publisher Moe Annenberg...
...pixie (well played by Cecil Kellaway) takes sides in a conflict between two oversimplified sets of values. The conflict involves Newsman Tyrone Power, who must choose between Good (writing as he pleases for "nickels and dimes" and marrying lovely Anne Baxter) and Evil (selling out to New York Publishing Tycoon Lee J. Cobb and his predatory daughter, Jayne Meadows). Any leprechaun knows the difference between good & evil, but it takes some time for a stuffy hero to figure...
...flame at that. This not improbable situation gets out of hand when the wife (Madeleine Carroll) plans to test her spouse's jealousy. She hires an actor to flirt with her at a nightclub; the actor's agent tips off the husband in advance; an unsuspecting tobacco tycoon (Charles "Buddy" Rogers) sits at the wrong table...