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
The Question Men were leaders of government agencies and captains of industry who convened in March 1939 to debate what those questions should be.
From Washington Post • Aug. 19, 2022
Most days, those planes are spread out, ferrying captains of industry to meetings around the globe.
From New York Times • Jul. 1, 2022
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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