Word: tycooning
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...placid temperament and steady habits who had inherited a vast fortune from his father, Standard Oil's Louis H. Severance, he made up for an otherwise uneventful life by making himself Cleveland's most lavish patron of the arts. As a patron, he had a tycoon's audacity...
Died. William James Tatem, Lord Glanely, 74, Welsh shipping tycoon, famed breeder and racer of horses; killed by a German bomb; in a southwest English coast town. He founded one of the world's greatest stud farms, at Exning, once had more horses in training than the Aga Khan and Lord Derby, won more than 500 races. His Grand Parade won the Derby...
...mild-mannered tycoon explained that all this was ludicrously false. Even before Mexico got his yacht, he had stopped using it-because "if I took it out people would say I was fueling U-boats...
...yachts in the world. Sleek, white and splendidly appointed inside, as long as a destroyer and a lot wider, she used to carry a crew of 315. Last week the Southern Cross was tied up tight to a pier in Veracruz. Her owner, Axel Leonard Wenner-Gren, No. 1 tycoon of Sweden, had given it to the Government of Mexico. If he had not done so, the Mexican Government might have taken it anyway. Quite clearly, Mexico did not want Axel Wenner-Gren to make personal use of the Southern Cross...
Everybody had Harold Ickes to thank, and not many thought to do it. Oilmen had swooned in 1941 when "Horrible Harold" was appointed Petroleum Coordinator for National Defense. One Tulsa tycoon had growled: "Ickes is captain of our souls. My day is absolutely ruined." But it was Ickes last summer who took up the crusade for the pipeline which they had all futilely talked about...