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J.R. Simplot, "Potato King" dies at 99.
J.R. Simplot, the billionaire founder of the Boise, Idaho-based agriculture business that bears his name and who helped make French fries a staple of the American diet and waistline, died on May 25, 2008 at the age of 99. His privately held company, where he was chairman emeritus, reported $3.3 billion in sales in 2006.
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Robert Mondavi, pioneering vitner dies at 94.
Robert Mondavi, the pioneering vintner who helped put California wine country on the map, died at his Napa Valley home at the age of 94. In 1966, he was 52 and a wine making veteran when he opened the winery that would help turn the Napa Valley into a world center of the industry. |
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