Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beaver had come to act as coordinator in the British-U.S. food and production setup. That was the official reason, at least. If there was any other reason, the dynamic newspaper tycoon, lately No. 2 man in Winston Churchill's Cabinet, said nothing about it. Neither did Downing Street; neither did Washington, officially...
...rise and Beaverbrook's fall there was a curious political paradox. Though Lord Beaverbrook played an infinitely more important role than Sir Stafford in improving Anglo-Soviet relations, the Beaver had to make way for the people's choice. But Canadian-born M.P. Garfield Weston (a biscuit tycoon) had another version: "We are told that Lord Beaverbrook has gone because he has asthma. But he has had asthma for 20 years. ... I believe he has left because he had become sick unto death of Government committees...
Miss Cochran (wife, in private life, of Tycoon Floyd B. Odlum) expects to find 375 U.S. women pilots, to augment 200 U.S. males now flying in the Air Transport Auxiliary. Women who get in will be paid an average $4,000 a year. First candidates are expected to be in Britain, ready for service, within five weeks...
Died. Dennis ("The Duke") Cooney, 63, longtime Chicago vice tycoon, onetime employer of Scarface Al Capone (as a busboy); of a heart attack; in Chicago. Though Cooney was affluent, liked to throw his money around, his mother refused to live on his income, made her living scrubbing floors till her death. Cooney retired from wholesale pandering a few years ago, seeking respectability...
Died. George Ashley Tomlinson, 76, burly Great Lakes shipping tycoon, short-time president of the Van Sweringen rail empire's top holding company, onetime Wild West show performer; of a paralytic stroke; in Pasadena. When the Van Sweringens faced loss of control of their $3,000,000,000 rail and real-estate properties in 1935, Tomlinson and Glassmaker George A. Ball made them needed loans, and Tomlinson became president and chairman of the Van Sweringen holding company, Allegheny Corp., in 1938. He resigned the next year, but retained the chairmanship of the Pere Marquette...