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

A successful lawyer and a green industrialist have both called on the chancellor to raise taxes on "the super-rich" - including them - in the Budget.

From BBC • Nov. 19, 2025

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

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2025

Samuel W. Westing, the mysterious industrialist who disappeared thirteen years ago, was found dead in his Westingtown mansion last night.

From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin