Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...movie producer in the U.S., put on a better-than-average financial show last year: its net earnings went up to $12,133,000, 9% above 1941. But the SEC last week revealed that the really supercolossal act of 1942 was put on by Loew's tycoon, Louis Burt Mayer. Mr. Mayer, the highest paid executive in the U.S. (for the sixth consecutive year), scooped up $949,766 in salary and bonus. That figure was 35% above his 1941 earnings, came within 5% of equaling the total increase in Loew's earnings for the entire year...
...with baby, when "Smithy," job-bent, is jolted from his amnesia by a street accident in Liverpool and remembers he is Charles Rainier, son of an aristocratic family. Unaware of cottage, wife and child, he goes home to Random Hall to resume life as an aristocrat, becomes an industrial tycoon...
Once upon a time (in Loretto, Pa.) humble little St. Francis College had a rich neighbor and alumnus who lived across the road in a $3,000,000 mountain castle called Immergrun (German for Evergreen). He was the late Steel Tycoon Charles M. Schwab. Often Mr. Schwab promised his alma mater a $2,000,000 endowment, but he never got around to it. Instead, when he died three years ago, bankrupt Mr. Schwab left the college holding the bag to the tune of $25,000, which he borrowed from it in 1932 and never repaid...
...biggest business in its recent history and losing money hand over fist. Of its $30,000-a-week budget, only a fraction was coming in at the box office. The rest was coming from the company's dance-daft angel, Lucia Chase, widow of Yonkers' carpet tycoon, Thomas Ewing Jr. Unlike most ballet patrons, Angel Chase is a professional ballerina, dances bit solo roles, solemnly draws a $75 weekly paycheck while regularly losing an estimated $150,000 a year making up the Ballet Theatre's deficit. A trouper who once used to pirouette with famed Dancer Mikhail...
...history of this heavy-browed tycoon and his United Mine Workers is as dramatic as it is paradoxical. Not ten years ago, Lewis put Labor on the map. It was he who conceived the ideal of industrial organization, and led his courageous group of miners from the musty fold of the A F of L. It was he who built up the ranks during the depression years, and made them a strong political factor in the elections of 1932 and 1936. Strongfisted and crusading, John L. was the biggest frog in a growing pond of industrial unionism up until...