Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months ago three Western Hemisphere cultural capitals-New Orleans, Guatemala City and San Salvador-started to do some handshaking on their own. The idea for this hands-across-the-Gulf was thought up by a New Orleans art patron, Doris Stone, whose father, big, angular Shipping Tycoon Samuel Zemurray, runs the ships of his United Fruit Co. to & from the ports of many a banana republic...
...winner by this tiny margin was another unusual figure, an insurance tycoon, J. Adhemar Raynault, who once before left his business to serve briefly as Mayor of Montreal, gave the city an administration active in Red-baiting. No spendthrift, M. Raynault slashed civic expenses. In his Gallic thrift Mayor Raynault had the mayor's official $1,400 fur robe stuffed away in a city vault to save the annual 3% furrier's storage charge. Moths ate all but the buttons...
...Harry Oakes, Maine-born, Bowdoin-bred mining tycoon (Canadian gold) now living in Nassau, where income taxes are 5%. Unlike his colleagues, most of whom are longer on bullishness than on bullion, Sir Harry is so fabulously wealthy that he might well finance the bulk of the bonanza...
Aboard the Southern Cross, yacht of Swedish Tycoon Axel L. Wenner-Gren, the Governor of the Bahamas and his lady this week set sail from Nassau to Miami. Reason: Her Grace needed an operation to relieve an apical infection of a non-vital molar...
...made a career of discovering other Alger heroes. Worming the life stories out of some 500 men, he has splashed them reverently across the continent in his own and Hearst publications. Charles M. Schwab called him "the humanizer of Big Business." "TIME," says B. C., "would call me a tycoon...