Sentence examples for manufacturing fortune from inspiring English sources

Before World War I, Mr. Ungar discovered, Szyk studied art as a teenager in Paris, financed by his father's textile manufacturing fortune.

He and his wife, heiress of a Philadelphia textile manufacturing fortune, had always been part of the hunt-club set outside Philadelphia.

Losh, an heiress to an alkali manufacturing fortune, was so precocious that as a teenager, around 1800, "she could translate virtually any Greek play 'almost on sight,' " Ms. Uglow writes.

Saturday 10 a.m. 4) A Century in Bloom About 14 miles north of downtown on what once was the site of a limestone quarry that fed the Butchart family's cement manufacturing fortune, Butchart Gardens (800 Benvenuto Avenue, Brentwood Bay, 250-652-5256) now covers 55 acres in blooms year-round.

Those left behind made room for 45 new names, 10 of them members of Chicago's Pritzker clan, whose intergenerational squabble resulted in the carving up of the family's $17 billion hotel and manufacturing fortune.

Danaher made both individual billionaires, and they have used their manufacturing fortunes to finance artistic interests.

Perhaps some old manufacturing fortunes will also regain their lost luster.

Her father was an archaeologist and adventurer, an heir to a Lyon silk-manufacturing fortune.

The magnificent Lever House, financed by a soap-manufacturing fortune, remains "bright, minty-fresh, and smacks of prosperity".

By Sasha Frere-Jones August 12, 2008 Carla Bruni, the heir to an Italian tire-manufacturing fortune and the child of classical musicians, was brought up in France.

The land of Donald and Mickey!" Ms. Bruni, an Italian-born heiress to a tire-manufacturing fortune, moved with her family to France in the 1970s as Italy was gripped by kidnappings.