magnate
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The deadly crash has brought attention to a little-known cargo carrier operating the flight—21 Air—and its well-known owner, Jim Crane, the logistics magnate and owner of the Houston Astros baseball team.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
A few club members who relocated to South Florida or spend time there lined up to shake Bezos’ hand, including real-estate magnate Richard LeFrak and businessman Eddie Lampert.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
South African mining magnate Patrice Motsepe on Wednesday ruled out a future in politics, dismissing speculation that he could one day run for the country's presidency.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
Featuring a 12-point stag on a Scottish Highland peak, it was commissioned by railway magnate Edward Betts and has passed through various private collections.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
Financial backers of both institutions—the Chemical Foundation in Columbia’s case and William Crocker, a banking and railroad magnate, in Berkeley’s case—seemed eager to pony up funds to cover Sloan’s further research.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
In The WSJ Money Interview, Gunjan Banerji will sit down with business magnates, financial titans and upstarts from all walks of life to answer your questions about how they made their fortunes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 28, 2026
Americans are well accustomed to ridiculously wealthy magnates assuming the same pose at their desks, or as Richard Branson did, on national TV.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2025
St John Harmsworth – brother of newspaper magnates Lords Northcliffe and Rothermere – made Perrier a byword for mineral water across the British empire.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2025
It is, by design, capable of confronting not merely individual wrongdoers but vast criminal networks and incalculably rich corporations and commercial magnates.
From Slate ● Nov. 20, 2024
As Lawrence rose in professional esteem, his social circle came to encompass the banking and oil magnates who had become his financial patrons.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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