Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Left. By Sir James Buchanan, Baron Woolavington, horse-racing whiskey tycoon (TIME, Aug. 19): $35,000,000, mostly to his daughter, who paid an estate...
Down upon the cactus-littered desert at Roswell, N. Mex., where Professor Robert Hutchings Goddard tinkers with stratosphere rockets, slid the red-striped monoplane of Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh. From the plane stepped Colonel Lindbergh and Copper Tycoon Harry Frank Guggenheim, bent on finding out whether the Goddard rockets are worth spending more money on. For three days Visitors Guggenheim & Lindbergh peered at a 60-ft. rocket tower and instruments usually covered by canvas to foil snoopers. Bald, secretive Professor Goddard showed them a new rocket he has sent on short nights at 700 m.p.h., a new gyroscope designed...
Unlike many a U. S. tycoon, Cyrus Hall McCormick had a son and namesake who could fill his shoes. When Cyrus I died in 1884, Cyrus II became president of McCormick Harvesting Machine Co., later president of International Harvester Co. Since 1918 he has been Harvester's board chairman. Last week, at 76. he retired...
...know anything about it," snapped President Walter B. Teagle of Standard Oil of New Jersey, arriving in Manhattan from London, where he had remained at the Ritz Hotel during the whole pother. Still 100% mum. Tycoon Teagle debarked in Manhattan last week, while London papers still rumored that he hired Mr. Rickett in the first place and ordered the promoter's fat fee paid last week regardless of future developments...
Died. Edward Laurence Doheny, 79, Los Angeles oil tycoon; after a three-year illness; in Los Angeles. A mule-driver at 16, he looked for gold for 20 years, found little, switched to oil. tapped the Los Angeles field and another great pool near Tampico in Mexico, built up a $155,000,000 petroleum empire. He was indicted for bribing Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall with $100,000 to secure the Elk Hills oil lease from the Government. was acquitted in 1930 when he convinced a Washington jury that the $100,000 in a "little black...