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Wallace McCain
Wallace McCain, known as Wally McCain, was a Canadian businessman who co-founded McCain Foods in 1956, then bought and chaired Maple Leaf Foods until his death in 2011.
Walter Bowes
Walter Bowes was a British-born American businessman who emigrated to the northeastern United States and co-founded the Pitney Bowes Postage Meter Company in 1920, promoting Arthur Pitney's postage meter invention.
Willard Rockwell
Willard Rockwell (1888–1978) was an American industrialist who founded the Wisconsin Parts Company in 1919 and led its $922 million takeover of North American Aviation, creating Rockwell International.
William H. Danforth
William H. Danforth (1870–1955) was an American businessman in St. Louis, Missouri, who founded the horse and mule feed company that became Ralston Purina, leading it as president from 1896 to 1932.
William Lawrence Saunders
William Lawrence Saunders (1856–1931) was an American engineer who patented a subaqueous compressed-air drill in 1883 and served as first president and later chairman of Ingersoll-Rand until his death in 1931.
William Wallace Grainger
William Wallace Grainger was an American electrical engineer and businessman who founded W. W. Grainger in Chicago in 1927 and led it as President and CEO for 40 years.