Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fury at Furnace Creek (20th Century-Fox) is a better-than-average western, and thus a considerably better-than-average movie. Victor Mature, a gunman employed by silver-mining Tycoon Albert Dekker, suspects his boss of framing his father (an Army officer court-martialed after an Indian massacre at an Arizona fort). It is fairly easy for Mature to run around incognito, since none of his law-abiding family would claim him. His ineffectual brother (Glenn Langan), hot on the same vengeful trail, is more of a headache; brother nearly bungles everything...
Fetch Me My Handmaiden. Far from being proud of his business connections, said Veblen, the tycoon does his best to convince people that he has never handled a deal in his life. He buys an impractical top hat, to symbolize his state of "conspicuous leisure." He goes off on a jag of "conspicuous consumption"-i.e., he pours his machine-made money into old china and silverware whose chief virtue is that they are handmade and therefore obviously very expensive. To show that he can afford to be "conspicuously wasteful," he turns a stretch of productive pasture into a non-productive...
Married. Paul Mellon, 40, onetime banker, horse breeder who races a stable of steeplechasers, son of Aluminum Tycoon Andrew W. Mellon; and Rachel ("Bunny") Lambert Lloyd, 37, daughter of drug (Listerine) and razor-blade (Gillette) Tycoon Gerard Barnes Lambert; each for the second time; in Manhattan...
...Railroad Tycoon Robert R. Young, doing some election-year thinking about a presidential candidate, spoke out for the magazine Advertising Age: "There are 10,000 businessmen who would be a better President than any of the men now considered." The interviewer wanted to know if he included himself. Mr. Young nodded...
...biggest tycoon of the lot, E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.'s Walter S. Carpenter Jr., took time to write the longest letter, four single-spaced pages packed with some hard sense about salaries. What it came down to, Carpenter told Complainant Benson, was this: How much did the company profit on the high-priced executives-and how much were they worth in the going market? As for Du Pont executives, he wrote: "I believe competitors . . . would be willing to pay . . . as much. . . . I believe the company's interest is better served by paying that compensation than...