industrialist

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When industrialist Henry Frick moved to break the union at Carnegie’s Homestead, Pa., plant in July 1892, skilled workers resisted.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

Kinloch Castle was built between 1897 and 1900 as a hunting lodge for Lancastrian industrialist George Bullough, who had it luxuriously furnished.

From BBC • Aug. 27, 2025

His Texas-born father was an industrialist and a San Fernando Valley real estate developer.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2025

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

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson