Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...yachts in the world. Sleek, white and splendidly appointed inside, as long as a destroyer and a lot wider, she used to carry a crew of 315. Last week the Southern Cross was tied up tight to a pier in Veracruz. Her owner, Axel Leonard Wenner-Gren, No. 1 tycoon of Sweden, had given it to the Government of Mexico. If he had not done so, the Mexican Government might have taken it anyway. Quite clearly, Mexico did not want Axel Wenner-Gren to make personal use of the Southern Cross...
Everybody had Harold Ickes to thank, and not many thought to do it. Oilmen had swooned in 1941 when "Horrible Harold" was appointed Petroleum Coordinator for National Defense. One Tulsa tycoon had growled: "Ickes is captain of our souls. My day is absolutely ruined." But it was Ickes last summer who took up the crusade for the pipeline which they had all futilely talked about...
Short rations, however, do not mean that Britain is running out of food. Actually stocks are greater now than they were two and a half years ago. But Lord Woolton, a successful department-store tycoon before he became Food Minister, knows that it might be fatal to dig into surpluses now. Said he last fortnight: "We are doing our best to keep you alive until the war is over. You will get thin but we are doing better than the Germans." (Actually most Britons are already thinner - as much as ten pounds...
...group's financial angel, who lives in the mansion and is married to Surrealist Ernst, is black-haired, husky-voiced Peggy Guggenheim, niece of philanthropic Copper Tycoon Solomon Guggenheim. Peggy Guggenheim, who loves to sport eight-inch earrings and a housecoat made entirely of peach-colored feathers, does no painting herself, but practically supports the group by collecting its pictures, plans next fall to open a Manhattan museum where they can be shown...
Everybody guessed and nobody guessed right. Identity of the pseudonymous author of Escape, popular anti-Nazi thriller of 1939-40, was the best literary mystery in a publishing tycoon's age. Leading can didates of the guessers were Dorothy Thompson, Rebecca West, I. A. R. Wylie. Last week the real author came out of hiding, proved to be Novelist Grace Zaring Stone (The Almond Tree, The Bitter Tea of General Yen), who had waited to declare herself till a daughter in Hungary had safely reached the U.S. Of her pen name (Ethel Vance), Authoress Stone explained she had chosen...