Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also finding her new jobs. While he was closing some doors, he helped to open a new gateway. That was the historic gateway to world trade which the city, in the mid-'20s, had apathetically let fall into disrepair. Louisianians like Investment Banker Rudolf Hecht, Soft Drink Tycoon William G. Zetzmann and Port Director E. O. Jewell had dedicated themselves to the task of making New Orleans one of the nation's greatest ports...
...unusual investment. From his savings, he spent $10 a day to live at Manhattan's old Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. There he could rub elbows with the rich who gathered nightly in "Peacock Alley" to swap gossip. Before long, Bertie Charles Forbes was on speaking terms with many a tycoon. He became the rich man's Poor Richard and Boswell. As a Hearst columnist and later as publisher of his own Forbes-Magazine of Business, "B.C." found a hundred ways of repeating the obvious ("Dawn will come. . . . The self-starter never allows his steam to run down. . . . Everything...
...Tycoon Robert Ralph Young, who takes as much pleasure in writing his own advertisements as in gobbling up more trackage, got a blow last week where it hurt. A Manhattan adman named Lawrence Fertig, who writes once a week for the New York World-Telegram financial page, criticized Bob Young's latest ad ("Let's Wake Up Rip Van Winkle...
Tonsorial Tycoon. An audience of Shanghai barbers was especially invited to see Wu's Chia Feng Hsu Huang (The False Male Phoenix and the Counterfeit Female Phoenix) when it was previewed. To play the lead, Cambridge-educated Director Huang Zo-lin had engaged slinky Li Lihua, one of China's leading actresses, who gets $70 million CN a picture (U.S. $1,400). Li Lihua's role was that of a widow, down to her last dress. She advertises for a husband and gives the impression that she is an heiress. The villain, a wealthy Chinese, reads...
Moore, as a philosophic and rotund bum, has evolved a unique solution for his personal housing problem. He has a luxurious summer home and an equally luxurious winter home--both belonging to an ulcerated millionaire. Moore, however, reversing the usual custom, resides in the tycoon's town house in New York during the winter, and moves to the Virginia estate of Mr. Moneybags when the latter gentleman comes north for the summer. Except for his kind heart, which causes him to take in an un-manageaable number of guests, and the loneliness of the millionaire's daughter, which takes...