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	The Hertz Corporation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A large billboard advertising Hertz was on the roof of the Texas School Book Depository in Dealey Plaza during the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
		As a public company, Hertz was traded on the NYSE under the symbol HRZ until the purchase of outstanding stock by Ford Motor Company.
		The Hertz Corporation (also known as Hertz Rent A Car or simply Hertz) is the world's largest car rental company, with 1,900 locations in the United States and 5,100 worldwide.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Hertz_Corporation (610 words)

	John D. Hertz 20th Century American Leaders Database
		Hertz's distinctive yellow cabs became popular quickly, and he was soon able to franchise operations in cities throughout the country.
		Hertz founded the Yellow Cab Company in 1915 as a way to provide transportation services at a modest price.
		At the time, livery services were targeted only to the upper echelons of society, and Hertz believed that there was a vast untapped potential.
	www.hbs.edu /leadership/database/leaders/383 (92 words)

	Yellow Cab Co. (of Chicago)
		Chicago automobile salesman John Hertz entered the taxicab business with Walden W. Shaw in 1907 by transforming used trade-in cars into taxicabs.
		Hertz began painting the taxis yellow to attract the attention of would-be riders.
		Hertz, an Austrian native who grew up in Chicago, incorporated the Yellow Cab Co. in 1915 with a fleet of 40 taxis.
	www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/2912.html (333 words)

	The Budapest Sun Online - Story page
		At the age of six his family emigrated to the United States and Sándor's name was anglicized to John D Hertz.
		Hertz's cars were in such a good condition that he soon realized that they could be used for rental purposes without a driver as well.
		A Hertz agency was first introduced to Europe in Paris in 1957, and came to Hungary in 1978 in cooperation with Fôtaxi, the first car rental company in the then communist country.
	www.budapestsun.com /full_story.asp?ArticleId={C4162FBB9E8D49BD99351381E486EA16}&From=Business (404 words)

	Hertz Corporation
		Hertz has close affiliations with Slovakia - on April 10, 1879, Schandor Herz alias John D. Hertz, the father of the world's leading car rental company, was born in Sklabina, a small town approximately 100kms from Bratislava.
		Hertz operates an extensive network of franchise operations in Slovakia, and with more than 2000 locations in Europe, both corporately and franchise owned, is well positioned to serve SkyEurope passengers on arrival at their destination.
		Hertz is the world's largest and longest established vehicle rental company and operates from more than 7,000 locations in over 150 countries.
	www.hertz.co.uk /aboutus/pressroom/skyeurope_c.cfm (349 words)

	HERTZ Car Rental Croatia
		Five years later he sold his company to one Sandor Herz, an emigree from central Europe who changed his name to John D. Hertz and gave it to the company.
		Hertz is also the world's largest purchaser of vehicles with a fleet of more than 700 000.
		Today Hertz is the world's largest car rental company, handling more than 30 million rentals a year in more than 7000 locations worldwide.
	www.hertz.hr /en/opcenito.htm (147 words)

	John D. Norton's Homepage
		Along with Rob CLifton and John Earman, I was one of the founders of philsci-archive.pitt.edu in 2001, a preprint server offered as a free service to the philosophy of science community for the early circulation of new work.
		In a study with John Earman, we have suggested that this account of the demon's failure is either based on question begging or groundless supposition.
		With John Earman, "Exorcist XIV: The Wrath of Maxwell's Demon." Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, Part I "From Maxwell to Szilard" 29(1998), pp.435-471; Part II: "From Szilard to Landauer and Beyond," 30(1999), pp.1-40.
	www.pitt.edu /~jdnorton/jdnorton.html#Research (4063 words)

	Thoroughbred Champions -- Championing the Horse & the Sport
		Count Fleet raced for the wife of John D Hertz, founder of the rental car company, and was trained by Don Cameron, an ex-WWI balloon pilot.
		At age two the colt was nearly sold again for $4500, but jockey Johnny Longden intervened and begged Hertz to keep the colt and race him.
		Hertz couldn't sell Count Fleet as a yearling, and on the advice of one of his stable boys, decided to keep him.
	www.thoroughbredchampions.com /biographies/ctfleet.htm (580 words)

	Count Fleet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sired by 1928 Kentucky Derby winner, Reigh Count and out of a mare named Quickly, Count Fleet was owned by the wife of John D. Hertz (1879-1961), best known for the rental car company bearing his name.
		Trained by Don Cameron and ridden by future Hall of Fame jockey, Johnny Longden, as a two-year-old, Count Fleet started off slow losing several times before getting his first win.
		Count Fleet, born March 24, 1940 at Stoner Creek Stud farm in Paris, Kentucky, United States and died there on December 3, 1973, was a thoroughbred racehorse and Triple Crown champion in 1943.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Count_Fleet (517 words)

	Road to the Triple Crown: History: Winners: Count Fleet
		In 1927, John D. Hertz watched a two-year-old race where one of the runners reached out and bit another horse dueling with him for the lead.
		Hertz never had a tremendous amount of faith in Reigh Count as a stallion, breeding him to just four mares a year.
		A clumsy, awkward youngster, Hertz considered selling him as a yearling, and again early in his two-year-old campaign.
	www.thoroughbredtimes.com /tc2000/history/winners/countfleet (699 words)

	Triple Crown Heroes: Count Fleet bloodhorse.com
		John D., Hertz's Count Fleet, of course, was the cause of the difficulty.
		He entered stud in 1945 at John Hertz' Stoner Creek Stud near Paris, Ky. Eight years after his Triple Crown, a son, Count Turf, won the Run for the Roses to complete a male-line Derby triple.
		The trainers of the 3-year-olds which chased him in the early season races have apparently seen the futility of it, and against him were arrayed Foxcatcher Farm's Fairy Manhurst, winner of a maiden race and a Class C allowance race, and Beverley Bogert's Deseronto, with only a maiden race to his credit.
	www.bloodhorse.com /articleindex/article.asp?id=9821 (642 words)

	Count Fleet
		Hertz was talked out of selling the colt because jockey, Johnny Longden believed that the colt could become a runner with time.
		Considered an awkward and clumsy colt, owner John Hertz considered selling Count Fleet during his two-year old career.
		Longden was correct when Count Fleet finished his two-year old career as racing's outstanding juvenile colt, highweight at 132 pounds on the Experimental Free Handicap, still the highest impost given out in the 60 year histoyr of the handicap.
	www.students.dsu.edu /peterssh/Race/race/countfleet.htm (346 words)

	Haas School CFRM Conferences
		Hertz was selected to serve a two-year term as a Practice Fellow at the Financial Accounting Standards Board where he participated in the accounting standard setting process.
		Hertz was with KPMG spending time in their Department of Professional Practice in New York and their Portland, Oregon office.
		John's primary responsibilities include advising the Intel businesses on the accounting, reporting and finance consequences of their various transactions, monitoring the activities of the various accounting standard setting bodies and regulators, developing and maintaining Intel's accounting policies & training Intel personnel.
	groups.haas.berkeley.edu /accounting/cfrm/conferences/15annual/speakerbios.htm (3748 words)

	Brooks Surname of Bourbon County, Kentucky
		John D. Hertz] and lived first in a house that stood at the rear of the present handsome residence he built a few years later.
		Of the foregoing children, Ann Weir Brooks, born 18 August 1798, died 25 July 188, married 03 Feb. 1820 in Clark County, Ky. to John Breckenridge, Revolutionary Soldier from Virginia to Bourbon County, Va. Ann Weir Brooks was the second wife of John Breckenridge, his first wife being Mary Duncan,.
		The John Breckenridge farm was located on the Hume and Bedford Road, now owned by Mrs.
	www.shawhan.com /Notes/brooks.html (481 words)

	Cary Area Local History
		Hertz was also the co-owner of Arlington park Race Track and his interest in breeding race horses produced two Kentucky Derby winners, Reigh Count in 1928 and Count Fleet in 1943.
		Eventually the Hertz Farm was sold in 1943 to Otto Schnering and Leona Farms.
		Today Hertz Rent-A-Car is still a modern day legacy of one of the many prosperous business ventures in which Hertz engaged.
	www.caryarea.info /caryhist.htm (470 words)

	Hertz Foundation: Home
		We look to support the graduate education of America's most promising technical talent, the Ph.D.-directed effort of the young men and women who can be expected to have the greatest impact on the application of the physical sciences to human problems during the next half-century.
		We are a tax exempt, not-for profit organization which provides fellowships tenable at over 40 of the nation's finest universities for graduate work leading to award of the Ph.D. degree in applications of the physical sciences.
		The Foundation's standing policy is that they will be structured to be the most attractive in their class in both material terms and duration of tenure.
	www.hertzfoundation.org (315 words)

	Calumet Farms: Five Decades of Champions
		In 1931, John Hertz had advised Wright to purchase broodmare Nellie Morse (Preakness winner in 1924) from the "Mutt and Jeff" cartoonist, Bud Fisher.
		Hertz had appointed Wright as a director of Arlington Park RaceTrack in Chicago.
		She was in foal to American Flag at the time and produced Calumet's first homebred stakes winner and divisional champion, Nellie Flag.
	www.imh.org /imh/cal/cal2.html (510 words)

	Bus System
		The bus company was controlled by John D. Hertz, who founded Yellow Cab Company and the rental car company bearing his name.
		Although the street railway was successful in its court bid to protect routes on which it held franchises but had not yet extended streetcar lines, CSL was forced to buy buses to provide the service.
		The prototype transit bus resulted from a battle between CSL (a street railway) and Chicago Motor Coach Company to provide service in outlying areas of Chicago.
	www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/196.html (507 words)

	Affirmed-Alydar duels: 'Electrifying' classics
		John D. Hertz, trained by Don Cameron and ridden by Johnny Longden.
		Alydar, a striking, reddish-gold son of Raise a Native, headed to Florida under the tutelage of the young John Veitch, the son of Hall of Famer Syl Veitch.
		Affirmed, trained by the exuberant Barrera, who had conditioned Bold Forbes to win the 1976 Derby, was voted champion 2-year-old and repaired to California to prepare for the Kentucky Derby.
	www.suntimes.com /output/horse/cst-spt-trip01.html (2432 words)

	18 Jun History: This Date
		Their competition, John D. Hertz’s Yellow Cab companies, continued to manufacture passenger cars.
		John Sculley officially resigns as president of Apple Computer, while retaining his title as chairman of the board.
		Dès la première moitié du XVème siècle étaient conclus des contrats d’assurance sur la vie de l’épouse ou des parents, ou même de tiers, garantissant le " contractant " à l’égard des pertes éventuelles que le décès de l’assuré pourrait entraîner.
	www.safran-arts.com /42day/history/h4jun/h4jun18.html (8272 words)

	Jews In Horse Racing
		There were also Nelson I. Asiel (1886-1965); Robert Lehman, Arlene Erlanger (1895-1969); Louis K. Shapiro (1897-1970); Irving Gushen (1899-1963), president of the Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association in 1953-63; Stanley Sagner (1908-1964); John M. Schiff, Jacob Sher (1889-1972); Louis E. Wolfson; Isador (Colonel) Bieber (1887-1974); Maxwell H. Gluck (1889-); Jack Dreyfus Jr.
		Another Hall of Fame entry in 1990 was owner Sam Rubin's John Henry a two-time American Horse of the Year.
		Blum rode 4,382 winners in a 22-year career (1953-1975), and Pincus, a leading 19th-century jockey was also an outstanding trainer.
	www.jewishsports.com /jewsin/history/horsehistory.htm (939 words)

	stakes2a_pf.asp?stakeid=414&track=A
		John D. Hertz, Count Fleet carried the Hertz colors and jockey John Longden to victories of three, eight, and 25 lengths in the classics.
		The COUNT FLEET is named for the 1943 Triple Crown winner.
	www.nyra.com /chart/stakes2a_pf.asp?stakeid=414&track=A (116 words)

	Rumkin Trivia
		2005-03-25: In 1907, John D. Hertz started the Yellow Cab company, which has become the largest taxi service in the world.
		Hertz read a study on "Colors and Their Effects," and decided that yellow was the color of choice because of its high visibility.
		At that time, criticizing the Emperor was an immediate death sentence, and St. John tried to avoid the penalty by referring to 666 instead of Nero.
	rumkin.com /fun/trivia/index.php?category=27 (17836 words)

	Count Fleet
		John D. Hertz, wife of the Chicago taxicab executive.
		A son of Reigh Count, the 1928 Derby winner, and foaled by Quickly by Haste, Count Fleet carried the colors of Mrs.
		A striking brown colt, Count Fleet was hailed as a successor to Man o’ War by some after his perfect six for six 3-year-old season.
	www.preakness.com /RacingInfo/TripleCrown/CountFleet.htm (190 words)

	The New Yorker: The Talk of the Town
		He said that the idea of distinguishing taxis from regular cars by painting the taxis yellow was popularized by a Chicago car dealer named John D. Hertz, who founded the Yellow Cab Company, in 1915.
		His car is easy to spot, not only because it’s one of the last functioning Checkers anywhere (the Checker Cab Manufacturing Company stopped producing them in 1983) but also because it’s painted green and cream—which are popular taxi colors in, of all places, John D. Hertz’s home town, where Lowich’s cab originated.
		Hertz franchised his idea, and he used the same color scheme for the logo of a car-rental company he founded in 1924.
	www.newyorker.com /talk/content/articles/040126ta_talk_owen (751 words)

	hertz homer alaska rental car
		Hertz Homer Alaska rental car is a Hertz Franchise, owned and operated by John Thompson.
		Our fleet consists of four wheel and front wheel drive vehicles.
	www.homeralaskarentalcar.com (35 words)

	Triple Crown Winners
		Earl Sande chose to ride Billy Kelly, leaving Sir Barton to John Loftus.
		The Derby was generally thought to lie between Eternal and Billy Kelly, which had finished in that order in a match the previous fall.
		Through driving rain, Sir Barton led all the way, supposedly as Billy Kelly's pacemaker.
	tcm.bloodhorse.com /heroes.asp (519 words)

	Programming
		John Hertz (M), Sharon King, Larry Niven, Fred Patten, Ed Green.
		John Hertz (M), Michael Engelberg MD, Rick Foss, David Joiner "Talin".
		John Hertz (M), Terry Karney, Larry Niven, Rainy Smyth.
	www.loscon.org /25/programming.htm (2755 words)

	Docket #FIC1998-055FD
		Hugh F. McManus, Chief, Darien Police Department, Town of Darien; and Darien Police Department, Town of Darien c/o John D. Hertz Darien Town Counsel Curtis, Brinckerhoff and Barrett, P.C. 666 Summer Street Stamford, CT 06901-1416
	www.state.ct.us /FOI/1998FD/19980722/FIC1998-055.htm (270 words)

	Broad,W. Star Warriors. 1985
		Over the years, a steady flow of money from rent-a-car magnate John Hertz enabled Teller to recruit Livermore's pallid army of young physics and math wizards.
		The Livermore facility is the brainchild of superhawk Edward Teller, who helped develop the H-bomb and later drove philosopher-scientist Robert Oppenheimer from public life.
		In this well-written and judicious book, science reporter William J. Broad chronicles his week inside the nation's most notorious "skunk works," or crash military R & D project: the mostly-young "Star Wars" team based at California's Livermore Laboratory.
	www.namebase.org /sources/OK.html (258 words)

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