If given five seconds to name a modern tycoon, would you pick
Donald Trump? Or does the late Sam Walton of Wal-Mart seem a
better choice for the title? Or perhaps you would think of Ann
Cox Chambers of Cox Communications, one of America's wealthiest
women.

Regardless of the financial or industrial tycoon who tops your
personal list, that man or woman has only one attribute of the
tycoon of old. That quality is power - raw and undiluted.
For the title we use so casually today was formed from Chinese
words meaning "great prince." But the ancient Chinese never
applied it to one of their own rulers. Instead, rivals located on
a nearby island employed it when the Shogun of Japan was being
described to foreigners.

All of which means that the modem tycoon, no matter how powerful
his or her bankroll may be, doesn't quite sit on the throne
occupied by a tycoon of old.

~source used: "Why You Say It" by Web Garrison

In 1948, John Wayne starred in a movie called "Tycoon", but he didn't play the title character, only an engineer who tried to complete a railroad route in Latin America for said tycoon. James Agee (see my quiz on him in the quiz section), one of our most gifted and wittiest film critics said of it:

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Several tons of dynamite are set off in this movie; none of it under the right people.

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