industrialist

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Indian billionaire industrialist Gautam Adani has agreed to pay a multi-million-dollar settlement in a US civil court case linked to corruption without admitting guilt, his company said Friday.

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

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

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

People particularly enjoyed taking in the Pullman porters, the Black men whom industrialist George Pullman hired to serve the sleeper cars on his trains.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson