Sentences with phrase «started by his grandfather»

Started by his grandfather and brought to success by his father Sanford Marks (Frank Langella), the corporation owns many of the slum properties in 1973 New York City.

In keeping with a tradition started by her grandfather, George V, all 1,500 of the Queen's staff are given a Christmas pudding as a gift, along with a greetings card from the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh.

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Founded in 1945 by Rasmussen's grandfather, Neal Feay started off as an aluminum distributor for functional, practical goods like electronics.

They start by addressing the needs of children, and from there work to improve the conditions that surround them so that mothers, fathers, grandmothers, grandfathers, siblings, and the entire community are all affected.

Owners Robert and Sonat Birnecker started their careers in academia, but decided to follow the distilling traditions of Robert's Austrian grandfather by launching Koval in 2008.

Its history began with a market started by Keath's grandfather, Glenn Koons, in 1957.

«The company was started 102 years ago by my grandfather, Max Starr,» President Alan Starr says.

Wong's grandfather Ed started farming onions in Idaho in 1946, followed by his son Ralph, who entered the business in the late 1950s.

Start with nearly 500 acres on the edge of the White Mountain National Forest near Franconia, N.H. Add a rustic ski lodge, built in 1946 by Miller's grandfather Jack Kenney.

Vanderbilt's Ricky Anderson got an earlier start; he began kicking over a miniature goalpost given to him by his grandfather when Ricky was five.

Understandably, both my parents were quite uncomfortable about giving up on the family business, which had been built by my grandfather over decades, to start life afresh.

Agri Feed Pet Supply was started in 1976 by Sturm's grandfather and a business partner.

He graduated from Texas A&M University and found inspiration from his grandfather in another way — by starting his own business.

Founded by, Herbert Watts, the grandfather of one of the current owners, REDCO is a custom rubber producer that started in a garage in San Leandro, Calif..

My family owned a chain of eight «dime stores» that were started in 1927 by my paternal grandfather.

Inspired by the photographs given to his grandfather from Harry Houdini, Oursler started collecting objects related to magic, paranormal, film, pseudoscience and technology in the 1990s.

Anthony Borges is pushed by his grandfather Alfredo Borges at the start of a news conference in Plantation, Fla., on Friday.