Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Charles Stewart Henry Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry, 70, British coal tycoon and onetime Secretary of State for Air (1931-35) who said in 1938: "Close cooperation with Germany will bring about lasting peace . . ." (he visited Hitler, Göring, Ribbentrop) ; of a head injury suffered four years ago in a glider crash; in Newtownards, Northern Ireland. A longtime supporter of Chamberlain until after Munich, Londonderry later campaigned for increased British air strength, won praise for having helped develop Britain's Spitfire and Hurricane fighter planes...
Porter was born in Peru, Ind. (pop. 15,000), in the corn country 75 miles north of Indianapolis, but his beginnings were hardly simple. He was the only child of a prosperous druggist, and the grandson and heir of coal and lumber Tycoon J. 0. Cole, who was worth something like $7,000,000. Though it took Cole years to satisfy his oh-such-a-hungry yearning for success on Broadway, getting there was not much more difficult than what a Porter lyric describes as "a trip to the moon on gossamer wings."* His comfortable itinerary included stops at Worcester...
...Asking nothing of the world, the shmoo gave everything: butter, milk, eggs, boneless meat, building materials (of sliced shmoo), suspender buttons (of shmoo eyes). Wherever shmoos went-and they multiplied like speeded-up guinea pigs-no one had to work any more. Capitalists thought this a menace, so Pork Tycoon J. Roaringham Fatback sent "shmooicide squads" to wipe out the shmoo. They succeeded, except for two shmoon (pl.), boy & girl, which Li'l Abner saved for Capp's future...
...hustlers from Harvard's own school for hustlers--the Business School across the Charles--chipped in 300 Philip Morris wrappers apiece last week to take top honors in the cigarette company's football prediction contest and snared an Admiral television set for the Tycoon Club...
Died. James Herbert Wilkerson 78 famed racket-busting federal judge, who sentenced Al Capone to prison in 1931; in Chicago. Judge Wilkerson also tried Utilities Tycoon Samuel Insull and Racing Form Publisher Moe Annenberg...