Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beneficent role as a major Asian power could be seriously diminished if other democratic nations such as Japan-which has now replaced Britain as Australia's biggest trading partner-come to resent the all-white continent as a racist preserve-which it is not. Declares Melbourne Mining Tycoon Sir Maurice Mawby: "We must live by geography today, not history...
Scrambling fact in a free-for-all of oldtime comedy styles, Magnificent Men invents a Great London-Paris Air Race in the year 1910. The competition, sponsored by British Publishing Tycoon Robert Morley, soon becomes a contest between a rugged U.S. barnstormer (Stuart Whitman) and an airborne English aristocrat (James Fox), each determined to win the day and the tycoon's daughter, Sarah Miles, precisely the sort of flibbertigibbet Josephine who might lose her heart-and through frequent entanglements, her hobble skirt-to a daring young man in a flying machine...
...stalled on the railroad tracks, with an irresistible blonde (Anne Francis) asleep inside. Of course, he saves her from an approaching train. Of course, she upbraids him for spoiling her attempted suicide, and of course she turns out to be the wife of his employer (Dana Andrews), the ruthless tycoon who heads Benson Industries...
Bombproof Pits for Isaiah. Almost all the funds that built the museum came from the New World. The $800,000 Shrine of the Book was bankrolled by the Gottesman Foundation, named for the late Pulp-and-Paper Tycoon Samuel Gottesman. The U.S. Government has contributed $830,000 and the Bronfman museum was a $2,000,000 birthday gift from the children of the 70-year-old Canadian liquor magnate. Billy Rose estimates that his garden cost $1,600,000. But no one seems to mind a bit that this whole art complex lies within gunshot of the barbed-wire border...
Like a character in an oldtime western serial, Real Estate Tycoon William Zeckendorf has ridden his ailing corporate steed, Webb & Knapp, Inc., through a series of cliffhanging adventures and crises. Somehow he has managed to avert disaster each time with an ingenious plan or a daring, last-minute rescue. Last week Bill Zeckendorf, 59, found himself in the worst trouble of his spectacular career. With no rescue in the script this time, the end seemed finally in sight for a saga that has endlessly fascinated and amazed the business world...