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Answer for the clue "United States industrialist who made a fortune in the oil business and gave half of it away (1839-1937) ", 11 letters:
rockefeller

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"immensely rich man," 1938, in reference to U.S. financier and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937).

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Rockefeller is a surname, and may refer to:

Usage examples of rockefeller.

That fifty years hence, these scourges of humanity will be curable by the administration of any remedy, to be hereafter discovered by experimentation on animals,--in the Rockefeller Institute, for instance,--I have not the slightest faith.

Oysters Rockefeller, Bienville and Roffignac-flounder Nouvelle Orleans, stuffed with seasoned crabmeat, choux fleur Polonaise, pommes au four, and-from the hovering wine steward-a bottle of Montrachet.

The culminating example is the Dingell hearings which in 1991 led to the Nobel Laureate and Rockefeller President David Baltimore being forced to publicly withdraw a paper he had coauthored five years previously, because the forensic evidence conclusively demonstrated that the lab books on which it was based had been tampered with to give misleading data.

Huitres en Coquille a la Rockefeller, a Filet de Sole Colbert and Entrecote de Boeuf Minute.

If such experiments have in truth been made under the authority of the Rockefeller Institute, it would seem to be of the utmost importance that the exact truth be made known.

Fanconi anemia, but they both knew how to navigate a medical database, and within days they found Arleen Auerbach, a researcher at Rockefeller University in New York and the keeper of the Fanconi patient registry in the United States and Canada, a list that contains about 800 names.

Palm Beach and this estate is about the size of Central Park and faces on the ocean and has many palm trees and fountains and statuary and a swimming pool and a house that reminds Fatso of Rockefeller Center, and with enough servants running around to form a union.

Al and its information-processing methodology is that of the Nobel Prizewinning Rockefeller University immunologist and theoretician Gerald Edelman.

Neither fuhrers nor premiers, doges nor rockefellers, would batten from what he already thought of as his discovery.

Lesser breeds had to paddle for it in the scummy, brackish canals of Times Square, Wall Street, Rockefeller Center, and other unimportant places, fending off lumps of offal and each other as best they could, or jamming over the interbuilding bridges, or trying to flag down an occasional blimp.

Many a day I have skulked in the shadows of the catacombs beneath Grand Central Station, on subways and even in the subterranean concourses of Rockefeller Center.

He ordered for them both: 2-2-2 hultres-the house's specialty combining Oysters Rockefeller, Bienville and Roffignac-flounder Nouvelle Orleans, stuffed with seasoned crabmeat, choux fleur Polonaise, pommes au four, and-from the hovering wine steward-a bottle of Montrachet.

So he’s got nobody with the nerve to go to old Rockefeller, or even Archbold, and say, ‘Give me half a million for the campaign, and I’ll go easy on you.

Here are the wives and children of the Colorado coal-miners being shot and burned in their beds by Rockefeller gun-men, and the press of the entire country in a conspiracy of silence concerning the matter.

You are not a Vanderbilt, whose fortune was made by a vulgar tugboat captain, or a Rockefeller, whose wealth was amassed through unscrupulous speculations in crude petroleum.