Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sued for divorce. Adolph Bernard Spreckels Jr., 28, four-times-married sportsman and sugar tycoon; by Emily Hall von Romberg Spreckels, 28, comely onetime baroness; in Santa Barbara, Calif. Charging brutality and shame brought on by his Nazi associations, Spreckels' wife complained that he had once flaunted a swastika in a Manhattan cafe...
Divorced. William Vincent Astor, 48, Manhattan real-estate tycoon, yacht host to President Roosevelt, and socialite son of the late (Titanic) Colonel John Jacob Astor; by Helen Dinsmore Huntington Astor, 46, patroness of many a musical and philanthropic venture; in Cody, Wyo. Charging mental cruelty after 26 years of married life, Mrs. Astor testified: "Mr. Astor is intent on his business enterprises and we seldom see each other...
...this, thought local men, was too much money for women to handle. After 1921 they began to take over the industry. One of the first was a young Georgian named Burl ("Chickenhawk'') Judson Bandy, now a 52-year-old, bullet-headed bedspread tycoon who flies his own cabin plane. When Real Silk bought out a Dalton hosiery mill, the displaced executives scraped together $13,000, started a spread house called Cabin Crafts Co. which now does the industry's largest single business - about $1,000,000 a year. These men brought professional designers into the industry...
...with $700 savings, a $4,300 loan, kept taking it apart and reassembling it until he found what made it tick. In 1911 he resigned a $12,000-a-year job as general manager of American Locomotive Co. to work for Buick at half the pay. Two-fisted, paternal Tycoon Chrysler drove himself and his men, thought "the one reasonably sure way to get ahead was to do just a little bit more than was expected of you." Two salvage jobs he did on moribund companies-Willys-Overland and Maxwell Motor Corp.-led to the birth of Chrysler Corp., which...
Died. Pierre Lorillard, 80, tobacco tycoon, sportsman, socialite, retired head of P. Lorillard Co. (Old Golds), son of the founder of Tuxedo Park; in his sleep; in Tuxedo Park...