Word: tycooning
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...winning planes and which Sir Malcolm Campbell had in his Blue Bird automobile when he set the land speed record last winter. Gar Wood, defending the trophy which the U. S. has held since 1907, had no government aid, no rich backer like Kaye Don's oil tycoon, Lord Wakefield. In the hull of Miss America X was a power plant which he had designed himself-four 1,600 h. p. Packard motors mounted in tandem pairs...
George Washington Hill, tobacco tycoon, bought $2,500,000 life insurance through James Roosevelt, 25, eldest son of the Democratic presidential nominee...
...Tycoon Stephanson took a fancy to the doctor, offered to make his fortune. His assistant, Nurse Martha, an angel in thin disguise, fell in love with him. His cases kept him busy: a dying old woman who wanted to be kept alive long enough to say good-by to her son; a dope-fiend who had once been a nobleman; his beautiful sister who was almost ready to sell herself to Stephanson; the clever surgeon who had gambled away his reputation and his fortune. By the time the short passage was over Dr. Wohlmut had had enough concentrated experience...
...Oxford, to her drearily respectable aunt. But Andre, a lesser Ziegfeld of Paris, happened to share her compartment. That was how it all started. Evangeline went to Deauville with Andre, to Montparnasse with Alexei, with Heinz to the Nudist colony at Himmelheim, with Count Ferdinand to Venice. Sold to Tycoon Constantine, she yachted comfortably to Smyrna just in time to meet the pillaging Turkish army. It looked then as if she might have to spend the rest of her life in a harem, but boredom, not shame, helped her to escape, with the help of a pure-minded...
...negotiated the famed $50,000,000 Loew's deal for William Fox. Natty, chipmunkish Fixer Blumenthal boasts that after months of dickering he was finally able to close the deal because he correctly interpreted scraps of a conversation he overheard between two foolish daughters of a cinema tycoon who did not know what they were talking about. Wall Street thinks that it was Fixer Blumenthal who arranged the compromise by which William Fox was ousted from his company (for $18,000,000 plus $500,000 annually for five years) in favor of the bankers. The Press knows...