captains of industry
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When workers want to unionize, America’s captains of industry actually have options.
From Slate • Jun. 7, 2023
A whole lot of inventors, artists, writers, musicians, engineers, mathematicians, and captains of industry are and have always been autistic.
From Seattle Times • May 12, 2023
DUP MP Ian Paisley said he was "one of the last true captains of industry and commerce and a man who has left his mark, not just locally but globally".
From BBC • Jul. 24, 2022
China’s captains of industry have prospered by building the country’s premier projects, not by improving neighborhood sewer lines.
From New York Times • Jul. 30, 2020
The vuvv happily sold their knowledge to captains of industry in exchange for rights to the Earth’s electromagnetic energy fields and some invisible quantum events.
From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson
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