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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]
Mirkin later said that recording with the McCartneys was one of the most "amazing" experiences of his life. [6] He flew to London and met the couple at Paul McCartney's recording studio, [20] where the McCartneys spent an hour recording their parts. [6] The Simpsons creator Matt Groening was supposed to go with Mirkin to London but missed his ...
Chad Alexander Mirkin (born November 23, 1963) is an American chemist. He is the George B. Rathmann professor of chemistry, professor of medicine, professor of materials science and engineering, professor of biomedical engineering, and professor of chemical and biological engineering, and director of the International Institute for Nanotechnology and Center for Nanofabrication and Molecular ...
Opening Title Production company Cast and crew Ref. J A N U A R Y: 3 Head Office: Tri-Star Pictures / HBO Pictures / Silver Screen Partners: Ken Finkleman (director/screenplay); Judge Reinhold, Lori-Nan Engler, Eddie Albert, Richard Masur, Rick Moranis, Don Novello, Jane Seymour, Wallace Shawn, Danny DeVito, Merritt Butrick, Ron Frazier, Michael O'Donoghue, Bruce Wagner, Ron James, John ...