Step 1 : Introduction to the question "All the money in the world could not save which one of these millionaires, when he went down in the sinking of the Titanic on April 15, 1912?"
...John Jacob Astor IV was one of the wealthiest men in America in 1912. But all the money and power held by him and his family could not buy him passage into a lifeboat during the debacle of the sinking of the Titanic.