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Cadillac Place. By Dan Austin of HistoricDetroit.org. General Motors founder William C. Durant bought a bunch of land 3 miles outside downtown and told Albert Kahn to design him a home worthy of his car company. This 15-story office complex at West Grand Boulevard and Second Avenue in New Center was the world’s second largest office building ...
Durant, William Crapo, 1861-1947, General Motors Corporation -- History, Businesspeople -- United States -- Biography, General Motors Corporation, Businessmen Publisher Boston : Little, Brown Collection inlibrary; printdisabled; internetarchivebooks Contributor Internet Archive Language English
Volume. 24. Issue. 5. On March 18, 1947, at 2:15 A.M. , William Crapo Durant, founder of General Motors and Chevrolet and the “leading bull” in the great stock-market boom and crash of the late 1920’s, died at his New York City apartment with his wife and nurse in attendance. His last fortune had evaporated in the Depression of the 1930 ...
William Crapo Durant was born on December 8, 1861, in Boston, Massachusetts. He dropped out of high school and worked a number of odd jobs, including in his grandfather’s lumberyard and as a cigar salesman. In 1886 Durant established a carriage company in Michigan, and in 1904 he took over the Buick Manufacturing Company.
Wiley, Sep 6, 1999 - Biography & Autobiography - 320 pages. The roller-coaster life of the flamboyant creator of General Motors William C. Durant did big things the big way: he overreached, but, until his final failure, he picked up the pieces time after time to confound his competitors. From a turbulent childhood in the small town of Flint ...
Publisher's summary. William C. Durant built General Motors and contributed significantly to the growth of the world-wide automotive industry. This book presents the story of Durant's life and career. From a position of bringing together 25 firms under the GM banner in 1910, Durant subsequently lost his fortune on the Stock Market and died a ...
WILLIAM C.DURANT, AUTO PIONEER, DIES; Founder of the General Motors Corp., Spectacular Trader in Stock Market Here VICTIM OF THE 1929 CRASH Estimated $120 Million Wealth Shrank to $250 by 1936u ...
