Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Alexander Melville Dollar, 52, eldest son of the late Shipping Tycoon Robert Dollar, head of his own Canadian-American Shipping Co., onetime president of Canadian Chamber of Commerce; of heart disease, like his father (TIME. May 23); in Vancouver. For many years he represented the Dollar interests in Canada, resigned from his father's company in 1922 to branch out for himself. Able brother Robert Stanley has long headed Dollar Lines, was last week elected president of reorganized U. S. Lines...
...players, none of them high-rated, were soon put out. From the quarter-finals on, the play was almost entirely among unknowns over a deserted course in howling wind & rain. In the finals lucky John De Forest, last year's runner-up, son of Coal Tycoon Baron De Forest, defeated 22-year-old Eric Fiddian 3 & 1 in 6 hrs. 35 min. for the required 36 holes, the longest final in the tournament's history. The two boys were appointed at once to the last two places on the British Walker Cup team...
...Marchand), free at last, a wistful champion of the bill of rights, is jailed again for singing to flowers. Again he escapes, chases a pretty girl (Rolla France) into the phonograph factory, is herded into line, disrupts the phonograph-assembling routine with his fumbling individualism, finally confronts the phonograph tycoon, his old convict pal, disrupting also his routine. The plot now begins to spin like a pinwheel. Blackmailers, a love interest, the police, a fabulous Magic Park for lovers, a lost suitcase with the tycoon's fortune, make a buoyant arrangement in nonsense, ending with a ceremony to celebrate...
...ideas was that each type of machine should have a special type of lubricant. Vacuum's chart showing what kind should be used was the result of this, first shown to an admiring and tremendous sales convention in Hamburg. Looking more like a literary lion than a tycoon, President Arnott nevertheless is a tycoon every hour, seldom relaxes, has no hobbies. He was made president of Vacuum a year before it merged with Standard of New York and kept the position when the two companies cast together their $960,000,000 worth of assets a year...
...Bevan's wealth, which permits him a capacious apartment on Chicago's Gold Coast, a house in Lake Forest and an annual junket to California, derives only in small part from his practice. In 1896 he married Anna L. Barber, sole heir to the late Match Tycoon Ohio Columbus Barber (1841-1920). Dr. Bevan is a large stockholder, a potent director of the $42,000,000 Diamond Match...