industrialist

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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

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

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

His Texas-born father was an industrialist and a San Fernando Valley real estate developer.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2025

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

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik