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

Mr. Nakadai played the dogged cop assisting Mifune’s gruff industrialist in foiling a kidnapper’s plot.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025

Powell, who has cast herself as the "independent choice" in the contest, has also been boosted by a £15,000 donation from green energy industrialist Dale Vince.

From BBC • Sep. 24, 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

At heart, he was a professor, not an industrialist.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik