Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with their lot; at government insistence, they get all the benefits that German workers do, including wages that start at a legal minimum of 65? an hour. But one West German recruiting scheme hit a snag last week. Badly in need of trained labor for his Hamburg shipyards, German Tycoon Willy Schlieker wants to hire up to 500 Scottish shipyard workers who have been threatened with layoffs or slow business at home. But despite his willingness to import a British cook along with them, Schlieker has not been able to get even an advance party of 60 Scots. British newspapers...
...nation's biggest public library is actually a private triumph-the work of three rich, generous New Yorkers who never saw the final result. In 1848 immigrant Fur Tycoon John Jacob Astor left $400,000 to start the Astor Library; in 1870 wealthy Bibliophile James Lenox gave $300,000 for a public library to house his own superb collection; in 1886 onetime Governor Samuel Tilden left $2,000,000 for "a free library and reading room.'' With another $5,200,000 from Andrew Carnegie for branch libraries, the Astor-Lenox-Tilden benefactions launched the New York Public...
...B.M.W. (midget cars) have snapped up time for spot commercials. A boat maker who ran a contest on Nord got 5,000 entries in five days. Radio Nord's charge for a primetime, 60-second spot: $40. The Bonjour is owned by a wheeler-dealer Texan, Dallas Tycoon Robert F. Thompson, whose other interests include seven U.S. radio stations, five U.S. TV stations, and a sometime partnership with Millionaire Clint Murchison Jr. Radio Nord's programs are taped in downtown Stockholm and delivered regularly to the Bonjour by motor launch, along with the plugs from eager sponsors...
...telephone without telling him about it. Anyone who did that, whether staff or guest, found his luggage packed." That was going a little far, thought Getty, even while reiterating that "there should be discipline in money matters, as in all things." Last week the five-time divorced tycoon installed his own form of Sutton Place discipline: a pay phone. "The coin box," chuckled Billionaire Getty, "should take care of things...
...York Stock Exchange Board of Governors permitting, Ike's Treasury Secretary Robert B. Anderson, 50, next week will cut the U.S. unemployment count by one. New job of the sometime Canadian holding-company tycoon and Texas attorney: a limited partnership in the blue-chip Manhattan investment house of Carl M. Loeb, Rhoades...