captains of industry
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Asked to choose flight or invisibility as a superpower — that old party game — how many novelists would choose flight, like captains of industry tend to do?
From New York Times • Sep. 24, 2023
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
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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