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

The deal included £237m for future investment in the club's Old Trafford stadium, part of a £4.2bn regeneration project the industrialist has billed as "the Wembley of the North" which will seat 100,000 fans.

From BBC • Feb. 12, 2026

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

Reagan impaneled the so-called Grace Commission, whose chairman, industrialist J. Peter Grace, promised to unearth billions of dollars of the elusive WFA.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 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