March 2006
Intermediate to advanced
336 pages
8h 52m
English
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CHRONOLOGY OF KEY E VENTS
1861 |
Billy Durant is born on December 8 in Boston, Massachusetts. |
1863 |
Henry Ford is born on July 30 in Dearborn, Michigan. |
1870 |
Pierre S. du Pont is born on January 15 in Brandywine, Delaware. |
1875 |
Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., is born on May 23 in New Haven, Connecticut. |
1886 |
Billy Durant creates the Flint Road Cart Company with $2,000 in borrowed capital. |
1899 |
Ransom E. Olds opens the first factory built exclusively for automobile production in Detroit. |
1901 |
The “Curved Dash” Oldsmobile becomes the first mass-produced American car. |
1902 |
Cadillac Automobile Company is created in Detroit by Henry M. Leland (renamed Cadillar Motor Car Company in 1904). |
1903 |
Buick Motor Company is created by David Dunbar Buick. ... |
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