baron
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To launch the biggest offering ever, the space baron is drawing on his real power: everyday investors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 24, 2026
His eponymous company, which the Gilded Age lumber baron founded with partners in 1900, pioneered logging techniques to harvest the Pacific Northwest’s verdant slopes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
Not because Mullin, a wealthy plumbing baron from Oklahoma who’s served in Washington since 2013, has a distinguished legislative record.
From Slate ● Mar. 7, 2026
Help came when some of his friends met Hari Khoday, the late liquor baron who was building a temple in Pandavapura.
From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2026
This one was William Cavendish, seventh Duke of Devonshire, who was a gifted mathematician and steel baron in Victorian England.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
It’s a concept historically antithetical to California, long boosted as the land of today and tomorrow by everyone from the Mission fathers to orange barons, developers to politicians.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026
She also analyzed just how rich the robber barons of "The Gilded Age" are.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
The salt barons of Michigan decided to do something about that.
From Barron's ● May 2, 2026
From Koli fisherfolk to colonial planners, and from Bollywood stars to textile barons, many have shaped the western Indian city's landscape and identity.
From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2026
When the old King came to his throne it had been an England of armoured barons, and of famine, and of war.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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