Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Utilities Tycoon Harvey Couch, who owns an 863-mi. backwoods railroad line, the Louisiana & Arkansas." How did you arrive at that "backwoods" business? Ever been down in this country? Does New Orleans and the Mardi Gras mean anything? How about Dallas and the Texas' Centennial? I'm not going to give you any statistics but you can read. The L. & A. Lines link these two principal cities and freight service via the "backwoods" railroad, New Orleans to Dallas, is second morning...
...amazement at the madness of Americans. The fresh snow in the backyard of the famous Spiridonovskaya Palace was littered with new bathtubs and other plumbing fixtures. One of the handsomest houses in the city, it was built only a few years before the revolution by Spasso, a fur tycoon (soon afterward murdered by his son), and its plumbing, barely 25 years old, is among the most modern in Moscow. But those crazy Americans who rented it as a home for their Ambassador have to have still newer plumbing...
Miss Ellen Wilkinson, the tiny Member for Jarrow whose "hunger marchers" have recently been snubbed in London,* tackled the Cabinet's wealthy shipping tycoon, President of the Board of Trade Walter Runciman, thus: "Can the President say why, in the case of two American magazines of high repute which have been imported into this country, during the last few wrecks at least two and sometimes three pages have been torn...
...Baron Beaverbrook, most powerful press tycoon of Fleet Street, arrived in Manhattan on the Bremen last week to face reporters eager to get at the bottom of why his Daily Express and other London papers have not printed the Mrs. Simpson story. "You are the censor!" cried a reporter. Replied Lord Beaverbrook...
...Pearl Island, Toba Harbor, Japan, Pearl Tycoon Kokichi Mikimoto celebrated a memorial service for hundreds of millions of "souls" departed from "martyred" oysters, then rehearsed his own funeral service...