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Among the 60 entries featured is the 13th wealthiest American in history, founders of one of the world’s largest scientific testing laboratories to insure quality and safety of products and medications, Hallmark Cards, Mutual of Omaha, Phillips Petroleum Company, and literary study guides Cliffs Notes; co-founders of one of six companies that built Hoover Dam and largest supplier of computer input-output equipment, owners of Page 3 world’s first and largest supplier of center pivot irrigation systems, Gallup Organization, Morton Salt Company, the largest manufacturer of scooter, golf cart, and mailster products, pioneers of first nationwide fiber-optic network, first electronic stock quotation network for brokerage industry, manufacturer of Polyethylene food wrap and bags, the world’s largest individual hotel operator, the world’s highest salaried woman executive in the 1920s, inventors of numerous electronic devices, vise-grip pliers, and early version of usable aviator parachute; chief executives of Chrysler, Coca-Cola, Dow Chemical, Eastern Airlines, Eastman Kodak, General Electric, General Mills, Hearst, Northwest Airlines, Peter Kiewit Construction, Sinclair Oil, 3-M, VF Corporation, and Warner Lambert; three appeared on cover of Business Week, two on cover of Time, and one on cover of Fortune, nine recipients of Horatio Alger Award, one of Peabody Award, one of Presidential Medal of Freedom, and one of Congressional Medal of Honor.

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