Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...onetime president of the American Medical Association (1917-18); in Lake Forest, Ill. Dr. Bevan, University of Chicago surgical lecturer since 1901, originated the "hockey-stick" incision for gall-bladder operations, was one of the largest stockholders among Diamond Match Corp. directors (his wife was sole heir to Match Tycoon Ohio Columbus Barber...
...blood of American youth to be shed for the ideals of Jefferson, Lincoln, and Wilson or for those of the British Tories, the American steel tycoon, Mr. Myron Taylor, and the Fascisl bishops of Detroit and Brooklyn...
Despite his age, Tycoon Hearst has not shriveled. Grey, jowled like a coon dog, no longer nimble, he still stands impressively erect to his full 6 ft. 2, is remarkably healthy. He still bubbles with new ideas for his publications, over which he maintains the vigilance of a whimsical despot. His newspapers are still wild-eyed, red-inked, impulsive, dogmatic, often inaccurate, and littered with grade-A, boob-catching circulation features. Currently Hearstpapers are making lurid attacks against "Stalin's Monstrous Double-Dealing," and are promoting "Total Warfare Against Japan . . . NOW." But Hearst personally has mellowed in his declining...
Left. By the late Charles M. Schwab, steel tycoon: assets of $1,389,509; debts of $1,727,858. Tax appraisal showed in dividual debts as high as $217,522 (to family friend Elizabeth Scott...
...Watson, president of International Business Machines Corp. He was No. 2 on the 1939 list of the top ten salaries ($442,560). Of this honorarium, $100,000 was salary. Most of the rest was extra compensation, in lieu of royalties, on his patents. After a $6 dividend to stockholders, Tycoon Watson took 5% of net earnings...