Word: industrialistic
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...nearby paper mill. Suddenly, the heftiest of the mendicants bellows in a throaty bass: "In the name of God, know that thou hast erred by desecrating this pure land, by acting more ferociously than a hungry tiger in devouring the lives of living beings. Curse be on thee, polluting industrialist! May God crack thine head to seven pieces and banish thee once and for all to inferno...
...wealthy industrialist who later became Secretary of the Treasury and U.S. Ambassador to Britain-awards grants in education, the arts, medicine, and other fields. It was created in 1968 by the merger of two older foundations-Avalon and Old Dominion-each of which had been endowed by one of Andrew Mellon's children: Ailsa Mellon Bruce and Paul Mellon...
...interned in Japan during the war and traded back to the U.S. in 1945, where she has lived under an alias ever since. Their argument rests on a slithering foundation of fanciful codes, anagrams, leading but unanswered questions, and hints at deals among the Japanese, Roosevelt and an American industrialist...
...present." On money: "We both try to live up to the rules of easy wealth. Elizabeth treats it all as fairy money. She scatters it. I am pretty cute business-wise. Some time ago, I went into a deal with two Swiss gnomes and an industrialist and set up a bank in Switzerland. So I am a banker, and a better banker than any you will find in New York or London...
...episodes in his half-century as an industrialist and financier have made Chicago's Henry Crown prouder than the work he did a decade ago at General Dynamics Corp. As executive committee chairman he helped manage the company's recovery from a $435 million loss on its Convair jetliners; it was the largest financial setback on a single product line ever sustained by a U.S. corporation. Crown felt deeply wounded when the company's directors in 1965 and 1966 called in General Dynamics' preference stock, forcing him and his family to sell a $100 million holding...