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.

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.

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 ).

The contracts were later transferred to the Credit Mobilier Company of America after Ames ousted its founder Thomas Durant.

She graduated from Wellesley as one of the 33 Durant Scholars on June 19, 1917, with a major in English literature and minor in philosophy.

It may have been designed from wallpaper Durant once saw in a French hotel room.

" Durant Motors operated a plant in Oakland from 1921 to 1930, manufacturing sedans, coupes, convertibles, and roadsters.

When they reached Super Six Four, Gordon and Shughart extracted the pilot, Chief Warrant Officer Mike Durant and the other crew members from the aircraft, and established defensive positions around the crash site.

Chief Warrant Officer Mike Durant was already defending the aircraft with an MP5 but was unable to move from his chair due to a crushed vertebra in his back and a compound fracture of his left femur.

When they reached Super Six Four, they extracted Durant and the crew members from the crash and defended the aircraft.

In 1916, William C. Durant, who founded General Motors in 1908, had retaken GM from bankers who had taken over the company.

Additionally, Chrysler would report directly to Durant, and would have full run of Buick without interference from anyone.

The brothers, grown, with families of their own, established homesteads from the Arkansas line to Durant.

The USPS re-established the post office at the site as Durant on March 8, 1882, dropping the word " station " from the name.

Durant is located in southern Oklahoma, in a region named Texoma, or Texomaland, because of its short distance from Lake Texoma.

The highway then enters Durant from the south.

Highway 70 enters Durant from the east as a two-lane highway as Mulberry Street, crossing a Union Pacific railroad via a bridge.

SH 78 enters Durant from the south as Southeast 3rd Avenue and as a two-lane.

There are four exits in Durant from U. S. 69 / 75 which are at First Avenue, Washington Avenue, University / Chuckwa ( the exit off of northbound 69 / 75 is the only one complete ), and Main Street.

McLaughlin who prior to his 100th birthday stated that he, Durant and Durant's son-in-law Dr Campbell from Port Perry and a lifelong friend of Sam were dickering after the Buick Motor deal for 15 years in 1907 and the exchange of $ 500, 000. 00 Buick stock for $ 500, 000. 00 McLaughlin stock with a name for their company and called it General Motors. This came to be in 1908.

He has guest-starred on many TV shows from Law & Order to The Simpsons, and currently stars as railroad magnate Thomas Durant on AMC's hit drama series Hell on Wheels.

On 1 January 2011, the band announced that Mark's replacement on keyboards would be Neil Durant, from instrumental prog-fusion band Sphere3.

When Kate tells Durant, he removes the reflective faceplate from a " robot " to reveal the face of a crew member.

By 1916 the profits from the Chevrolet company allowed Durant to repurchase a controlling stake in General Motors, and by 1917 the Chevrolet company that Louis had cofounded was folded into General Motors.

The main campus in Durant has facilities at the airport to support flight training and facilities on campus to facilitate the management options in business, maintenance, safety, and security.

In 1910, Durant became financially overextended and banking interests assumed control, forcing him from management of GM.

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.

In January 1909, General Motors President William C. Durant purchased a 50 % interest in the Oakland Motor Car Company.

In 1908, Durant founded General Motors, filing incorporation papers in New Jersey, with headquarters in Flint.

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.

Under the guidance of " Colonel " Sam McLaughlin as President in 1907, the company began the manufacture of automobiles, eventually forming an alliance for 15 years with William C. Durant, who had acquired the Buick Motor Company that later would become General Motors Holding Company.

* 1920 Durant was forced to sell his $ 25, 000, 000. 00 in General Motors Stock

In 1910 William C. Durant of the fledgling General Motors Corporation gave control of his company to the Seligmans and Lee, Higginson & Co. in return for underwriting $ 15 million worth of corporate notes.

General Motors was founded by William C. Durant on September 16, 1908, as a holding company for Buick.

His racing career continued as he drove for Buick, becoming a friend and associate of Buick owner William C. Durant ( founder of General Motors ).

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 went back to Detroit to start General Motors ( GM ) Holding Company at the suggestion of his partner McLaughlin, CEO of General Motors of Canada ( founded November 20, 1907 ).