Word: durantes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Money is only loaned to a man," William Crapo Durant once said. "He comes into the world with nothing and he leaves with nothing...
...Billy" Durant came into the world in Boston with not even a loan. Raised in Flint, Mich., he quit school at 17. By selling patent medicine, cigars, insurance and borrowing from friends, he scraped up enough to join a fellow clerk in buying out a carriage factory for $2,000. Through his prodigious energy and salesmanship ("he could coax a bird out of a tree") the company acquired 14 plants by 1904. Durant's "Blue Ribbon" carriages became the Fords of a horse-drawn world...
...company overinvested in bicycles, lost out. Unperturbed, Durant got control of the tottering Flint Wagon Works, sold $10,000,000 worth of stock to exploit its rights to manufacture a horseless carriage, designed by David Buick. He made millions in a few years, laid grandiose plans to take over the lusty young auto industry. He almost did, by merging five companies-Henry Ford was the most important holdout-into General Motors...
Other members of the Varsity entourage include Paul Fulton and Mort Dunn, utility infielders; Len Lunder, a fourth outfielder; alternate catchers Bill Barron and Webb Durant, and four other pitchers, Brenden Reilly, Ira Godin, Raiph Hymans, and Barry Turner. Turner is the squad's only left-handed twirler...
Pointing out that 25 percent of the University's expenditures go into the pockets of members of the Association, Aldrich Durant '02, Business Manager of the University, urged the members to put in a good day's work in order to justify their large share of the University's expenditures...