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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]
Eugene Edward "Mercury" Morris (January 5, 1947 – September 21, 2024) was an American professional football player who was a running back and kick returner.He played for eight years, primarily for the Miami Dolphins, in the American Football League (AFL) as a rookie in 1969 then in the American Football Conference (AFC) following the 1970 merger with the National Football League (NFL).
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 ...
Raheem Morris (born September 3, 1976) is an American professional football coach who is the head coach of the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League (NFL). He previously served as head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers from 2009 to 2011 and interim head coach of the Falcons in 2020. Morris also was an assistant coach for the Kansas ...