The Star was an automobile marque that was assembled by the Durant Motors Company between 1922 and 1928.

After Durant was forced out of General Motors in 1910, the Elmore marque was soon cut, along with several other underperforming brands, to help General Motors achieve financial stability.

Sally Durant Plummer, " blond, petite, sweet-faced " and at 49 " still remarkably like the girl she was thirty years ago ", a former Weismann girl is the first guest to arrive ; her ghostly youthful counterpart moves towards her.

Thomas C. Durant who was building the cross-Iowa railroad ( the M & M ) was literally banking that the Omaha route would be chosen and began buying up land in Nebraska.

In contrast to the relatively straightforward arrangements for the Central Pacific, the Union Pacific which was to ultimately build nearly 2 / 3 of the track was to be mired in controversy and scandals while its controlling partner Thomas C. Durant got rich as he took advantage of lax or non-existent government oversight during the Civil War.

Then Durant wound up taking the stock from the investors and was to end up controlling about half the stock of the railroad.

Durant was to keep a low public profile in his machinations as he was only a vice president.

The major investor in the Union Pacific was Thomas Clark Durant, who had made his stake money by smuggling Confederate cotton with the aid of Grenville M. Dodge.

Durant was to leave the Union Pacific and a new rail baron Jay Gould was to become the dominant stockholder.

Chevrolet was founded by Louis Chevrolet and ousted GM founder William C. Durant on November 3, 1911, and later acquired by General Motors in 1918.

Durant was ousted from the management of General Motors in 1910 for five years.

By 1916, Chevrolet was profitable enough with successful sales of the cheaper Series 490 to allow Durant to repurchase a controlling interest in General Motors.

After the deal was completed in 1917, Durant became president of General Motors, and Chevrolet was merged into GM as a separate division.

Later that year, the struggling company was taken over by James H. Whiting ( 1842 – 1919 ), who moved it to his hometown of Flint, Michigan, and brought in William C. Durant in 1904 to manage his new acquisition.

Will Durant claims that Corfu owed to the Republic of Venice the fact that it was the only part of Greece never conquered by the muslim Turks.

Russell Clifford Durant ( called " Cliff " by his friends ) was a race car driver, speedboat enthusiast, amateur flier, President of Durant Motors in Oakland, and son of General Motors founder William " Billy " Crapo Durant.

Durant Field was often called Oakland Airport, though the current Oakland International Airport was soon established four miles ( 6 km ) southwest.

Also, as a result of a downed Blackhawk air assault helicopter, Warrant Officer-Pilot Michael J. Durant from 160th SOAR was held captive for 11 days.

Shortly after, Shughart was killed and Durant was taken alive.

Durant took the first train to Flint to make an attempt to keep Chrysler at the helm of Buick.

Durant said his purpose in writing the series was not to create a definitive scholarly production but to make a large amount of information accessible and comprehensible to the educated public in the form of a comprehensive " composite history.

The league ’ s best shooters ( such as Steve Nash, Peja Stojaković, Ray Allen, Chauncey Billups, Kevin Durant, Kobe Bryant, and Dirk Nowitzki ) can make roughly 90 % of their attempts over a season, while notoriously poor shooters ( e. g. Dwight Howard, Blake Griffin, Ben Wallace, Tim Duncan, Rajon Rondo, Andre Iguodala, Kendrick Perkins, Glen Davis or Marcin Gortat ) may struggle to make 50 % of them.

Durant continued to make personal appearances ( which paid more than his television salary had ), guest-starred in CBS's Perry Mason and The Twilight Zone, and was nearly cast opposite Lucille Ball in her Broadway debut, Wildcat !, which flopped.

Westlake impersonates Durant one final time when he meets up with Strack and a captive Julie as Strack plans to make the city " one less attorney.

In 2002, to make the building accessible to disabled residents, BSC added a ramp that ran the length of the house along Durant to the front door, bisecting the front stairs.

* 1861 – William C. Durant, American automobile executive ( d. 1947 )

On November 3, 1911, Swiss race car driver and automotive engineer Louis Chevrolet co-founded the Chevrolet Motor Car Company in Detroit with William C. Durant and investment partners William Little ( maker of the Little automobile ) and Dr. Edwin R. Campbell ( son-in-law of Durant ) and in 1912 R. S. McLaughlin GEO of General Motors in Canada.

Durant planned to use Chevrolet's reputation as a racer as the foundation for his new automobile company.

* Rugby ( automobile ), made by Durant Motors

* Eagle ( 1920s automobile ), an automotive brand of Durant Motors

Elmore was the site of the original manufacture of the Elmore automobile, one of the first companies bought up by W. C. Durant to form General Motors.

On November 3, 1911 Chevrolet cofounded the Chevrolet Motor Car Company with Durant ( by now ousted from General Motors ) and investment partners William Little ( maker of the Little automobile ) and Dr. Edwin R. Campbell ( son-in-law of Durant ).

William Crapo " Billy " Durant ( December 8, 1861 – March 18, 1947 ) was a leading pioneer of the United States automobile industry, the founder of General Motors and Chevrolet who created the system of multi-brand holding companies with different lines of cars.

Durant also conceived the modern system of automobile dealer franchises.

Both Durant and rival Henry Ford foresaw the automobile becoming a mass market item.

* William C. Durant ( 1861 – 1947 ), pioneer of U. S. automobile industry

** Durant ( automobile ), a car produced by Durant

The Durant automobile is considered to be an example of an " assembled " automobile because so many of its components were obtained from outside suppliers.

Durant Motors was found insolvent and automobile production ended early in 1932.

* Flint ( automobile ), a Durant automobile from the 1920s

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The Flint was considered an assembled car because Durant Motors used components manufactured by outside suppliers to build its automobile lines.