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Biography. Mirkin was born to a Jewish family [1] in Sioux City, Iowa, the son of immigrants from Russia. [2] Mirkin served in the U.S. Air Force during World War II. [2] In 1958, he opened the first Budget Rent-a-Car office at Wilshire and Robertson boulevards in Los Angeles. [2] In 1960, he was joined by Jules Lederer and they incorporated ...
Website. www.budget.com. Footnotes / references. [1] Chevrolet Express wagon from Budget Rent-A-Car (Toronto) Budget Rent a Car System, Inc. is an American car rental company that was founded in 1958 in Los Angeles, California by Morris Mirkin. [2] Budget is a subsidiary of the Avis Budget Group, with its operations headquartered in Parsippany ...
July 8, 1970. (1970-07-08) (aged 76) Nationality. American. Known for. founder of Checker Motors Corporation. Morris Markin (Russian: Морис Маркин) (July 15, 1893 – July 8, 1970) was a Russian -born American businessman who founded the Checker Cab Manufacturing Company (which would later become the Checker Motors Corporation).
In the 1950s, Lederer was president of the Autopoint Company in Chicago, Illinois and in 1960, he joined Morris Mirkin, who founded Budget Rent a Car company in 1958. The pair incorporated as Budget Rent a Car Corporation in 1960. Budget Rent a Car is now a unit of Avis Budget Group. Budget Rent a Car became popular in its early days by renting ...
Morris Mirkin (1919–1985), founder of Budget Rent-a-Car [53] [54] Abraham Saperstein (1902–1966), British-born founder of the Harlem Globetrotters; former owner of NLB's Chicago Brown Bombers and the Birmingham Black Barons [55] [56] Louis Sloss (1823–1902), co-founder of the Alaska Commercial Company [57]
The presidency of William Henry Harrison, who died 31 days after taking office in 1841, was the shortest in American history. [ 6 ] Franklin D. Roosevelt served the longest, over twelve years, before dying early in his fourth term in 1945. He is the only U.S. president to have served more than two terms. [ 7 ]
The Morris Minor is an economy car produced by British marque Morris Motors between 1948 and 1971. [7] It made its debut at the Earls Court Motor Show, London, in October 1948. [8] Designed under the leadership of Alec Issigonis, more than 1.6 million were manufactured in three series: the Series MM (1948 to 1953), the Series II (1952 to 1956 ...
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