Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Charles W. Seiberling, 85, longtime rubber tycoon, who, with his brother Frank, founded the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., lost control of it in the '20s, bounced back with the Seiberling Rubber Co.; in Akron...
Often there was barely time for lunch with General Perón before the Presidenta had to be off again to make a speech. Last week, with air and shipping tycoon Alberto Dodero & wife, she flew north to keynote the Government's anti-inflation campaign in the great grain port of Rosario...
...both sects is its remoteness. Nine miles from the mainland, it has only one link with the world: a ferry which makes the trip twice daily. Nowhere is there a radio, a telephone or a newspaper; the Island's ancient Oceanic Hotel, built in 1873 by mustard tycoon John R. Poor (a Unitarian), has no running water, no baths. Said Congregationalist "Shoaler" Donald A. Adams: "You have nothing else to think about except religion...
...late grocery tycoon, Frank Munsey, buyer and killer of newspapers, hired him for the New York Sun, assigned him to "go out and find out what is the matter with America." Then, in 1923, Captain Joseph Medill Patterson "bought me a very fancy lunch at the Ritz," offered him the managing editorship of a magazine to be called Liberty. Davenport said he didn't know anything about editing, Patterson said: "That's fine; then you've nothing to unlearn. Go right to work." Two years later, after being told that "no one would be annoyed...
Divorced. Jay Gould III, 27, wartime AAFlyer, namesake and great-grandson of the Erie railroad tycoon; by Jennifer Bruce Gould, 21, pert, pretty daughter of Cinemactor Nigel Bruce; after nearly two years of marriage, one child; in Los Angeles...