WBAI was the hobby of Louis Schweitzer, an eccentric millionaire who had made his fortune in paper manufacturing.
Many of the online gamblers who have earned a fortune in paper profits betting their savings on shares in Yahoo!, Amazon and the rest will never get their money out.
In one strand of this we meet three generations of the upper-middle-class Ghosh family, who made their fortune in paper production and are steadily losing it through the effects of Partition, mismanagement, union trouble and domestic discord.
Another huge loser was Patrick Lee, the orphan who got his start exporting handbags from the mainland and eventually made a fortune manufacturing paper.
Lim, who made his fortunes in paper pulp and other investments in Singapore, holds his stakes in his international businesses, including the Manchester and Salford ventures, via the British Virgin Islands, a tax haven.
Mr. Catsimatidis, in his first two months as a candidate, spent about $260,000, almost all from his own $3 billion fortune, according to papers filed on Thursday.
In 1955, the theater was a 24th anniversary gift to Miss Lortel from her husband, Louis Schweitzer, a chemical engineer who made his fortune manufacturing cigarette papers.
Meanwhile, the papers' fortunes diminish with each passing month.
Ward made a paper fortune in speculative ventures of dubious legality (of which Grant knew nothing).
While the slump in Glencore shares has shrunk Glasenberg's paper fortune, he has accumulated considerable wealth from his stake.
