Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tycoon Melchett rose to speak of Britain's industry, Britain's labor problems, Britain's new urge toward amalgamation...
...audience of peers, 300 U. S. industrialists directing corporations whose assets totaled tens of billions of dollars, whose balance sheets have been the index of U. S. prosperity. A tycoon addressed tycoons...
...sophisticated observers, familiar with Tycoon Melchett's known passion for consolidation, amalgamation, did believe he had come to the U. S. to tie up his vast British interests with U. S. enterprise. To newsgatherers, he denied all reports of new I. C. I. deals with Allied Chemical in the U. S., or with the mighty German I. G. Farbenindustrie. Most obvious of remaining possibilities, therefore, was a merger of Mond Nickel with the "biggest" International Nickel Co., owning adjoining properties in the Froude Mines of Ontario...
...great was the commotion in the stock exchanges that few heard Tycoon Melchett's pronouncements on world affairs. As a Tory, he will support Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's government in the coming British elections. Students of English politics recalled, however, that his Toryism is of curiously recent vintage. His was the influence and his the bank account which helped the Liberal Lloyd George to power and kept him there. As Sir Alfred Mond, he took the Ministry of Public Works in the first Lloyd George cabinet...
...Manhattan, last week, none asked him to explain his politics. But bankers asked him of the progress of the Finance Company of Great Britain and America, Ltd., which is the few-months old international child of a luncheon-party with Tycoon Albert Henry Wiggin, Chairman of the Board of the Chase National Bank (Manhattan...