| 词汇 | rich as rockefeller |
| 词源 | rich as Rockefeller. Rich as Rockefeller refers to the family fortune amassed by John Davison Rockefeller (1839–1937). The oil refinery that became the Standard Oil Company made Rockefeller a billionaire before it was dissolved by the Supreme Court in 1911. Variations on the phrase above include he’s a regular Rockefeller, and Rockefeller itself is the American equiv- alent of Croesus. John D. may have given only dimes to beggars, but his philanthropies included the founding of the University of Chicago, the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1901), and the Rockefeller Foundation (1913) for worldwide humanitarian purposes, in all worth about half a billion dol- lars. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., built New York’s Rockefeller Cen- ter, with Radio City completed in 1940. There is no popular saying “as rich as Bill Gates,” despite a 2002 study by New York Times business editor Allen R. Myerson that concluded that Gates’s fortune amounted to $46 billion compared with Rocke- feller’s $25.6 billion when both fortunes were adjusted for inflation. |
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