Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Spokesman for the Technocrats and director of their "Energy Survey of North America," is Howard Scott, consulting engineer.* His analyses of power have set many a tycoon pondering into the night. Says he: "The price system and its concomitant political administration are hangovers from past sequences of history in which production depended on the conversion of energy through manpower alone. Before the last century the only means by which energy could be converted into products or services was the human engine, whose rate is equivalent to about one-tenth horsepower...
...curt, bristling National Hero whom Japanese crowds call adoringly "Our Devil Tycoon" and "Our Strong Shogun" returned last week to Tokyo in terrific triumph. He, Lieut.-General Shigeru Honjo, Conqueror of Manchuria, stopped en route at a mountain spa, and was literally mobbed by U. S. and British tourists who shoved, gasped and shrilled, "Please, General, please! Your autograph! Just one more?...
Next pale, white-powdered Empress Nagako (who has borne only daughters) received bronzed Conqueror Honjo in private audience, a rare honor for a man.* Their Majesties then jointly had the "Devil Tycoon"? to lunch. Straight from their Royal Palace he drove to an ugly alley, so narrow that his limousine could not enter. Alighting amid frenzied cries of Banzai! he squeezed down the alley to his tiny, Spartan home...
...Emperor has received only one woman in private audience, Miss Evangeline Booth, "inas-much as she is a Commander." ?Fit to make Courtiers shudder is this popular nickname, recalling the period (1192-1867) when Japan was ruled by a Shogun or Tycoon, the power of the Imperial House being then in eclipse...
...winning planes and which Sir Malcolm Campbell had in his Blue Bird automobile when he set the land speed record last winter. Gar Wood, defending the trophy which the U. S. has held since 1907, had no government aid, no rich backer like Kaye Don's oil tycoon, Lord Wakefield. In the hull of Miss America X was a power plant which he had designed himself-four 1,600 h. p. Packard motors mounted in tandem pairs...