Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...porcelain box, listening to the various degrees of humming, observing the efficiency of freezing power. One refrigerator caught his attention and he had a long talk with the man who stood beside it. The man was red-cheeked Axel Leonard Wenner-Gren, Sweden's No. 2 tycoon, great maker of vacuum cleaners and automatic iceboxes. He was standing beside the new refrigerator he had begun to manufacture. Mr. Sloan noted that it had no moving parts, made no noise, worked by means of a little gas flame applied to a solution of water and ammonia...
...within the ur bane doors of his "American Bar" on the Rue Fontaine, Paris. Here may be seen a beauteous cinemactress flirting coyly with a fun-loving British peer over the telephones which hospitable Joe Zelli placed on every table to facilitate social intercourse; or, on rare occasions, a tycoon-sired U. S. collegian squirting seltzer-water at beturbanned Indian moguls.* William Bateman ("Tinplate") Leeds provided a fine funeral complete with a satin-lined casket at Scarsdale, N. Y., for Pal, a German shepherd dog killed in a dog fight. Hearst's Boston American quoted friends of youthful James...
Lions are occasionally seen on the Nairobi, British East Africa golf course. There is also a cinema theatre, but apart from these diversions life in Nairobi can be excessively dull. The Hon. Averill Furness, 23-year-old daughter of Viscount Furness, shipbuilding tycoon, and Andrew Rattray, her father's so-year-old professional hunter, found it so one evening last month as they finished dinner. Next morning, with a maid and a typist as the only witnesses, they were secretly married. Lord Furness was out in the bush hunting lions. To break the news to her father, Mrs. Rattray dispatched...
...Dillingham, island-born, polo-playing Harvardman (ex-1902), whose immense wealth comes from sugar & utilities, appointed a new police chief and reorganized the generally inefficient police department. New chief was Charles F. Weeber, formerly of Harrisburg, Pa. Since 1920, when he retired from the Army, Chief Weeber has been Tycoon Dillingham's private secretary...
...General Wu Teh-chen and other officials to call off the boycott Japan had two other weapons. Though few U. S. citizens realize it, China has a merchant marine. Japan threatened last week to close the port of Shanghai to all Chinese vessels. One of the city's greatest tycoons is grizzled, wily old Yu Ya-ching, ex-President of the Chamber of Commerce, Municipal Councilor, Managing Director of the Sanpeh Steam Navigation Co., second largest Chinese steamship company, and generally known as "The Big Boss of Shanghai." He is rumored to be one of the leading spirits...