Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year (tax free) presidency of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development had gone begging for months. Several prospects had rejected the job. Then Democratic National Chairman Bob Hannegan began thumping the drums for ex-Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, now a real-estate and Scotch-whiskey tycoon. That got action, but of an unexpected sort...
When Evan Llewelyn Evans, Beautee Soap tycoon, walked into conference, executives trembled and secretaries swooned. When Vic Norman took the dreaded job of handling Beautee's radio commercials for the firm of Kimberly and Maag, despotic Mr. Evans put on one of his most impressive acts. First, he spat on the conference table-to illustrate to Vic that no matter how disgusting a radio commercial may be, it's O.K. if it hits the spot. Then he emptied a carafe of water over the table (drenching the knocking knees of several hirelings)-to illustrate that any other kind...
Married. Alice Muriel Astor Obolensky von Hoffmannsthal Harding, 34 (daughter of Colonel John Jacob Astor, sister of Vincent); and David Pleydell-Bouverie, 34, U.S.-naturalized grandson of the late British munitions tycoon Albert Vickers; she for the fourth time, he for the first; in Reading...
...unprecedented boom grew beanstalk-fast from a 3,022-ft.-deep borehole in a cornfield near the dusty little village of Odendaalsrus, southwest of Johannesburg on the Free State's sandy veld. A Canadian engineer, G. W. Hicks, employed by Diamond Tycoon Sir Ernest Oppenheimer's Western Holdings and Blinkpoort companies, brought up the diamond-drilled ore core. It assayed 62.6 oz. of gold to the ton-33 times as rich as the phenomenally prosperous Blyvooruitzicht mine, 120 times better than Canada's best...
Lord Beaverbrook, Britain's Tory newspaper tycoon (Daily Express circulation, 3,442,366), hopped to the U.S. en route to Bermuda, behaved for all the world like a newspaper-hater. At LaGuardia Field newsmen got a quick "no comment" brushoff. The New York Times, which knows dignity when it sees it, headlined: LORD BEAVERBROOK ARRIVES, IN SILENCE...