industrialist

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Then there was Frank Jay Gould, the son of the industrialist Jay Gould, and Frank’s wife, Florence, who, Mr. Harding tells us, “was believed to have worked with members of German military intelligence.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026

These items, all life-size, reflect the taste of a Gilded Age industrialist.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

The Hong Kong-based industrialist Li Ka-shing's investment group owns UK Power Networks, which operates electricity distribution infrastructure across London, the South East of England and the East of England.

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2025

Farben; and industrialist Günther Quandt, who was also, oddly enough, the former husband of Goebbels' wife Magda.

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2025

Rumor had it that the school had been funded by the wealthy industrialist Andrew Carnegie.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson