Word: dealership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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since 1947. Jones, a Braniff director since 1944, started out in the auto-selling business in 1920, when he put a faltering Ford agency in Blackwell, Okla. on its feet. He got a Ford dealership in Oklahoma City, quickly built it into the biggest in the state. He added a Tulsa agency, a radio station (KFMJ), and became vice president of the Julian Oil & Royalty...
...amazing changes wrought in General Tire over the past few years by its president and founder, William Francis O'Neil, 66. A rough & ready graduate of Holy Cross, Bill O'Neil left his father's New England textile mill in 1907, got a Firestone tire dealership in Kansas City, Mo. A friend suggested that he make tires and plug his "home talent" products in the vicinity. "I didn't go for that home talent stuff," O'Neil recalls. "I thought of home talent theatricals and decided we wanted to be on the Broadway...