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n. (captain of industry English)
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The Captains of Industry were a fictional DC Comics superteam introduced in 1988's Firestorm the Nuclear Man issue #88.
The Captains of Industry was a British group, formed by the former Stiff Records performer Wreckless Eric. The group was managed by The Clash's former road manager, Johnny Green.
In 1985 the group released an album, A Roomful of Monkeys on Go! Discs Records. Shortly after the release of the album they broke up, after the band lost most of its original members.
The Captains of Industry were an independent record label based in London and Durham, UK. They announced their launch in 2003 "as a self-funded experiment in art and commerce" with a plan to exist for 5 years, and as a result ceased trading while in profit in 2008.
They released material by artists including Hell Is for Heroes, The Grates, Peace Burial at Sea, Gay for Johnny Depp, The SoundEx, Marmaduke Duke, Kinesis, TEAM and Sucioperro. Captains of Industry 'ceased trading' as of 1 April 2008, claiming to have achieved their '5 year plan' - to "release some cool records".
The label released Transmit Disrupt, the second album by Hell Is for Heroes, after the band was dropped by EMI, and is co-managed by the band's vocalist Justin Schlosberg.
Captain of industry and similar can mean:
- Captain of industry, a business leader
- Captains of Industry (band), a group formed by former Stiff Records performer Wreckless Eric
- Captains of Industry (comics), a fictional DC Comics superteam introduced in 1988's Firestorm the Nuclear Man issue #88
- Captains of Industry (record label), an independent record label based in Durham, UK
Usage examples of "captains of industry".
He pretended to avert his eyes from her stillnude body but failed to impress her: She was well aware he preferred male privates, preferably out of uniform, to female captains of industry.
Quoted therein, plaintiff cites, among numerous contemporary expressions of local exuberance, comments by then presiding Village Board member J Harret Ruth at the ribbon cutting and reception held at nearby Mel's Kandy Kitchen with glowing photographic coverage, quoting therefrom the time, the place, and the dedication of all you assembled here from far and wide, the common people and captains of industry and the arts rubbing elbows in tribute to the patriotic ideals rising right here before our eyes in this great work of sculptural art.
He had read all sorts of things in the Sunday papers and elsewhere about the constant strain to which captains of industry are subjected, a strain which sooner or later is only too apt to make the victim go all blooey, and it seemed to him that Mr.
One version of the American dream, he reflected, was an office aerie like this one - a commanding height from which the captains of industry and commerce directed the nine-to-five weekday battle against government, consumers, environmentalists, and one another.