Word: tycoons
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...absence, scores of prominent citizens had raised their voices in favor of a more liberal race policy. South Africa's business world was suffering badly from foreign reluctance to invest in so unstable a state, warned Mining and Industrial Tycoon Harry Oppenheimer. It had become "difficult if not impossible" to raise money in London for any South African venture, echoed Sir Charles Hambro of the powerful Union Corporation; to restore its credit abroad, declared Sir Charles, South Africa must seek "more harmonious relations with the urban native population" and "satisfactory outlets for the legitimate aspirations of all sections...
Faces of Success. C. P. Snow has observed the new men both from the view point of science and literature, from poverty and power (he has been a top civil servant, and remains something of a tycoon, as Director for the last 13 years of English Electric, Britain's biggest electrical firm). His father was a gentle underling in a shoe concern in Leicester, England. The family was poor, at least "shabby genteel, no money to spare." Young Charles won a scholarship to red-bricked Leicester University, where he copped first class honors in chemistry. He went...
...Tycoons. The rivalry between Shell and Jersey is an old Shell game. The first great oil tycoon was Jersey Standard's John D. Rockefeller, but the second was an iron-fisted and energetic Dutchman named Henri (later Sir Henri) Deterding, who joined the Royal Dutch Co. shortly after it was founded in 1890 by Dutch nationals, soon took over as its head...
...most influential men in U.S. city planning is neither a licensed architect, a city official, nor an engineer. He is Manhattan Real Estate Tycoon Robert W. Dowling. who at 64 bosses the $53 million City Investing Co., and whose conception of his role makes him an amateur do-it-yourself designer, an inventor and innovator, and a patron of the arts on a grand scale. Bowling's purpose is simple enough. He wants 1) to make money, while 2) enhancing the U.S. landscape with well-planned developments. Says Dowling: "I always think about our place in history. The great...
Walter Paepcke became what is called a patron of the arts, and the patronage has now spread throughout the business world. The first-rate architect is in demand as never before; the painter and businessman are on speaking terms; and no tycoon's home or office seems quite complete without its work of art. This has been one of the major art news stories of the decade, and one of the men who helped write it was Walter Paepcke, who died last week...