Word: hertz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Still far in front of the field is Hertz Corp., with a fleet of some 33,000 company-owned or franchised vehicles operating out of 717 cities in 22 countries. Hertz's leading competitor is Avis Rent-A-Car System, with roughly 15,000 cars and trucks. But business is so good that neither is worried by Greyhound's entry into the field. Says Avis' President Richard S. Robie: "We've only scratched the surface of this business. The potential is tremendous. The only competition we have is from the man who drives...
...Diners' Club. That competition has been steadily weakening ever since a Chicago auto salesman named Walter L. Jacobs started his car rental business with twelve model T Fords in 1918. He built the fleet to 565 cars in five years, then sold out to Taxicab Manufacturer John Hertz. Jacobs stayed on in the company, eventually rising to president, and has convinced millions of travelers that it makes sense to rent...
...push the idea still further, the renters have invented a dozen new schemes. Hertz, which has 227 rental facilities at airports, recently made the same deal with 17 major U.S. and Canadian railroads. The company has also made an agreement with the Diners' Club to charge car rentals. And to accommodate overseas travelers, Hertz last week set up an international division that will handle reservations, obtain international drivers' permits and border-crossing documents for customers...
...Denver girl, and settled down to raise a family. Last year, when her third husband died, Daisie King bought the Crown-A, a drive-in hamburger stand in West Denver, for $35,000, put Jack in charge (he also had a job as a mechanic at the local Hertz Drive-Ur-Self agency). She also made a down payment on a small home for the Grahams...
...only Denver resident who boarded the plane in Denver (and therefore the most likely to have a time bomb planted in her luggage) was Daisie King. Graham's actions after the tragedy had been suspicious; on the morning after the crash, he resigned his job at the Hertz agency, although his boss had offered him a three-week compassionate leave. A Kremmling, Colo, merchant, who had known Jack Graham when he was a boy, said that he was "pretty sure" that Graham had purchased 20 sticks of dynamite from him just three days before the fatal explosion...