baron
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Cruise was at CinemaCon earlier in the week to preview a very different film, Digger, in which he plays a grey-haired oil baron who has to clean up his environmental mess.
From BBC • Apr. 17, 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
Government and private money are flowing in quantities that would make a Gilded Age robber baron blush.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 23, 2025
“Ease” survived, but Abbe soon sold the work to railroad baron Collis Potter Huntington to help relieve his financial difficulties.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025
Declaring themselves firmly opposed to the Super were Lilienthal, the Republican oil baron Sumner Pike, and Princeton physicist Henry DeWolf Smyth.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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