captain of industry
Example Sentences
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His excellent training saves the show’s favorite captain of industry.
From Salon • Aug. 11, 2025
At one of these meetings, I was meeting with a captain of industry, a very important person.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 2025
There's laughter, sandcastle construction and everyone - whether they're a captain of industry or a truck driver - is enjoying the great embrace of the ocean.
From BBC • Jul. 6, 2023
I look at the shell of his hotel as the equatorial night plunges over it and wonder whether a person can be both captain of industry and conservationist.
From New York Times • Nov. 18, 2011
And if he can, is he to be an aristocrat, a landlord, a captain of industry, and to bear rule over the mossback?
From Chapters in Rural Progress by Butterfield, Kenyon L. (Kenyon Leech)
