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...part of their campaign against the Russian Orthodox Church—and in an effort to make money—the Soviets took the bells from the monastery and sold them to Charles R. Crane, an American industrialist, in the 1920s. Crane then donated them to Harvard in 1930, and Lowell residents soon created their Sunday tradition of bell-ringing...
...Soviets also destroyed the bell tower, removing the bells and selling them to the industrialist Charles Crane—who then gave them to Harvard as a gift...
...cops earn extra money by selling their bullets; and gangs, operating under the auspices of crooked bureaucrats, police and army-ranger elements, siphon off water before it reaches the taps of most Karachi apartment buildings and sell it in the city from tanker trucks, according to municipal workers. An industrialist who says he refused to bribe health inspectors saw his tiremaking plant shut down when they invoked a little-observed 19th century British law requiring factory walls to be whitewashed. On the Karachi Stock Exchange, insider trading is commonplace and conflict of interest is rife. Some of the exchange...
...industrialist enjoyed upsetting the apple cart more than Henry Ford. In 1914 he announced that he would pay $5 a day to his workers, double the going rate. With the extra cash, Ford reasoned, they could purchase his Model Ts. The workers were becoming a bulwark of the middle class...
DIED. JEAN-LUC LAGARDERE, 75, French industrialist who built a small defense subcontractor into one of Europe's largest conglomerates and whose holdings include the company that makes Airbus jets and the Hachette magazine group, publisher of Car and Driver and Elle; of sudden complications after a hip operation; in Paris...