Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fantastic growth of the surrounding population-the very situation that led to the closing of Roosevelt Field -set the promotional and moneymaking gears of Real-Estate Tycoon William Zeckendorf to whirring. Why not build an integrated shopping, office and industrial center to cash in on the growth? Last week, unlike many a Zeckendorf production, this one was actually nearing completion...
...years Jack and Billy had a good thing going for them in a variety of rackets. At last, like many another tycoon in the full flush of success, they took to writing their memoirs. Announcing his retirement last year, Billy hired a ghostwriter and turned out a book called Boss of Britain's Underworld. Jack produced a rival series of articles for the Sunday Chronicle, describing in glowing terms his own rise to power. The Jack Spot memoirs hit their high point with the boast that he had mustered an army of 1,000 hoods armed with Sten guns...
Died. Jesse Holman Jones, 82, Texas tycoon, big builder (of Houston skyscrapers), publisher (Houston Chronicle; circ. 596,000), longtime (1932-45) head of Reconstruction Finance Corp., wartime (1940-45) U.S. Secretary of Commerce; in Houston. As overlord of RFC and a dozen other New Deal agencies in the Depression '30s, massive (6 ft. 3 in., 200 Ibs.), granite-faced Jesse Jones saved many a bank, railroad and factory from disaster, made money for the Government by insisting, with a small-town banker's care, on rock-sound collateral before certifying a federal loan. Jones was dropped by Franklin...
...acting with and for a group-"just a few old friends"-whose identity he kept secret. But at least three were tentatively identified as New York Investment Brokers David Baird and Charles Allen and Theater Tycoon Simon H. (Si) Fabian, president of Stanley Warner Corp., to which Warners sold its theater chain in 1953, in accordance with an antitrust decree separating moviemakers from exhibitors. While Semenenko denied that old friend Fabian, "a wonderful executive." had invested in his new deal, he admitted that he would "like to see the legalities ironed out, so that Fabian could get into the picture...
...ironworks after graduation from high school, young Friedman at last decided to work his way through agricultural college and become a farmer. Graduating close to the top of his class at Cornell, he was offered a job by one Colonel George Fabyan, a wealthy Chicago eccentric and dry-goods tycoon with a 500-acre estate near Geneva. "What do you do on your estate?" asked Friedman. "I raise hell," said the colonel...