Word: tycooning
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...quick for him, and he manages so that Dersingham finds his firm caught in fatal advance contracts with prices of foreign stock raised prohibitively. At this juncture Golspie, with the resuscitated Lena, embarks for South America, while Miss Matfield, who had finally consented to a weekend trip with her tycoon, forlornly looks for him at Victoria station, waiting to be seduced. The book closes with glimpses of the Smeeth and Dersingham families, sitting about the collapsed business and hoping for a fall of manna, while Golspie floats vociferously down the Thames...
Whatever the reason for these discrepancies, the Press made the most of them. Here was not only the mysterious death of a tycoon, but of a man of the Press? an occasion for extra zeal. Paul Patterson, Mr. Black's publishing associate, satisfied investigators that Mr. Black, a drinking man, had not been drunk. The suicide angle was dropped when Mr. Patterson explained that Mr. Black's estrangement from his wife was a ''happy mismating." But front-page stories for two days stressed the variance in the ships' reports, expressing by their emphasis and alertness a professional suspicion that there...
Died. Charles F. Ruggles, 84, oldtime Michigan lumber tycoon, financial abettor of the American Judiciary Society for the Prevention of Delays in the Law, an endower of Michigan charities by his will to the extent of more than $40,000,000; at his home in Manistee, Mich., where he had long lived the solitary life and worn the decrepit clothes of the pioneer lumberjack...
...Patsy, 12-metre sloop sailed by Tycoon John Jacob Raskob: a race in the Chester River Yacht Club regatta off Baltimore. Second was John J. Raskob Jr. in a 10-metre boat...
Twenty miles north of Chicago, at Ravinia, another music-loving tycoon faced another deficit: Louis Eckstein, whose summer opera avocation is almost vocation. Like Mr. Insull, Mr. Eckstein did not gloom. The summer's $200,000 loss will be made up somehow. Last year he and Mrs. Eckstein went into their own pockets for $97,000 of a $217,000 deficit. Said he last week: "I merely consider it my contribution to summer culture...