Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French monopoly of the world's best soups can and must be ended," said Hotel Tycoon Reeves-Smith, opening London's Food & Cookery Exhibition. "Many countries, such as the United States and Great Britain, grow better vegetables than they have in France...
...absence, threatened to bolt all agreements, start a rate war to the finish unless Bernstein was brought into line. But how could he be brought into line when he was not even present? Frantic messages were sent to Bernstein's Hamburg headquarters, demanding his whereabouts. Hamburg reported Tycoon Bernstein "missing." Hopping mad, the Conference voted to postpone further meetings until Herr Bernstein arrived in Paris...
...Tycoon Bernstein lives in Hamburg with his wife and two children, plays golf often and well, visits the U. S. every spring and autumn for a month. Transatlantic competitors watched his maritime growth with envy, did not really begin to worry until three years ago when he decided to go into the passenger business. From his 14 ships, all named after Saxon castles, he chose three of the biggest and best, had them rebuilt as combined passenger & automobile transports in the New York-Antwerp trade, with stops at Southampton and Havre. The 16,000-ton Königstein was equipped...
...Tycoon Bernstein splashed full-page advertisements in the travel sections of newspapers, took additional pages in the Sunday magazine sections, book review sections, shiny-paper magazines. His ships boasted neither luxury nor speed-all are ten-day boats-but they did offer cheap, clean, comfortable accommodations, efficient service, friendly informality. Food was simple but wholesome and abundant, with German dishes a specialty. All cabins were amidships, all had hot & cold running water, nearly all were outside, none had more than two beds. Just as on big ships, passengers could dance, play deck games, swim in a canvas pool, lounge...
Stabbed Publisher Shoriki, whose famed Yomiuri is Tokyo's third largest newsorgan, had meanwhile been rushed to hospital, hastily given a blood transfusion. In the eyes of Japanese jingoes his conduct has long merited Death. Not only has Tycoon Shoriki annoyed Japan's dominant dictatorial clique by printing eulogies on Constitutional Government but last year he even went to the extreme of bringing Babe Ruth to Japan just as her jingoes were successfully working up public opinion to believe that the U. S. is the "White Menace...