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Walter Chrysler rode the rails to GM, then started his own company.(SUPP)(Company overview)
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September 15, 2008|
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Byline: Larry Edsall
Nearly a decade before he started his own car company, Walter P. Chrysler was the highest-paid employee in the U.S. automobile industry, making more than $600,000 a year at General Motors. Not bad for a guy who was sweeping floors in a Union Pacific Railroad machine shop for 4 cents an hour when he was 17.
Walter Percy Chrysler was born April 2, 1875, in Wamego, Kan., to a family whose German name was Greisler when it arrived in Canada. The family had moved to the American colonies in the 18th century.
Chrysler worked hard from ...
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INFORMATION ISSUED BY U.S. ATTORNEY'S OFFICE FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK ON JULY 13: VERDUN, CANADA, MAN PLED GUILTY TO MISDEMEANOR OFFENSE OF ATTEMPTED ILLEGAL ENTRY BY ALIEN
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
; ...announced that MICHAEL PATRICK DEVOYAULT, age 36, of Verdun, Quebec, Canada, pled guilty today in Plattsburgh, New York, to...Officers in an attempt to enter the United States from Canada at the Champlain, New York Port of Entry. DEVOYAULT...
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Owing allegiance: the British community in Verdun, Quebec during the Second World War.
Magazine article from: Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal
; ...d'origine. Verdun pretendait aussi etre la ville du Canada ayant la proportion...sociomilitaire du Canada en temps de guerre...municipality of Verdun, Quebec offered...Adjustment in Canada. They also clearly establish Verdun as a city with...
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Fighting from Home: The Second World War in Verdun, Quebec.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Urban History Review
; ...mechanisms which combined to make Verdun's experience of the war remarkable. Verdun avoided much of the English...mixed-language cities in Canada during the war, conflicts...speakers and 42% French, Verdun's experience was not one...
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Garbage and recycling in Verdun - Positive Response by Residents to New Collection Procedures.
News Wire article from: CNW Group
; VERDUN, QC, Oct. 23, 2008 (Canada NewsWire via COMTEX) -- All in all...renewal increases and at "making Verdun cleaner and greener". Each sector...collection day Since Monday, October 20, Verdun has therefore been divided into four...
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Novell helps the Verdun Hospital Centre centrally manage two independent hospital IT operations; Quebec-based hospitals save costs and resources with Novell NetWare 6 and ZENworks for Desktops 3.
M2 Presswire
; ...ZENworks for Desktops allows the Verdun Hospital Centre to reduce maintenance...Novell is pleased the Verdun Hospital Centre is using our...and general manager, Novell Canada. "Our NetWare and ZENworks...technology investments." The Verdun Hospital Centre plans to deploy...
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Serge Durflinger, Fighting from Home: The Second World War in Verdun, Quebec.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Labour/Le Travail
; ...inspiring account of Verdun's place in Canada's 'last good war...many positive ways to Canada's war effort: Verdun's 'good war...of it, what made Verdun unique, compared to anywhere else in Canada, was the fact that...
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In the Crease: Welcome to the league, Verdun; now you figure out the schedule
Newspaper article from: Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me.
; ...the proposition of a team in Verdun sounds appealing, at least...Montreal metro area. Teams in Verdun (four times), Longueuil...major junior hockey leagues in Canada have teams in their bigger markets...flip side, moving a team to Verdun will be a problem, too. On...
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Former Verdun Mayor and Member of the City of Montral Executive Committee, Georges Boss Joins Groupe DAA
Newspaper article from: CCNMatthews Newswire
; ...East, Europe, the United States and Canada. DAA has six offices in Qubec. Mr...He served as Mayor of the Borough of Verdun during the same period and as Mayor of the former City of Verdun from 1993 through 2001. From 1993 to...
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Launch of Service Canada.
News Wire article from: CNW Group
; VERDUN, Sep. 14, 2005 (Canada NewsWire via COMTEX) -- In Verdun today, Liza Frulla, Minister of Canadian Heritage...residents of Quebec and other communities across Canada can now access (Verdun has been a pilot site featuring these improvements...
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Four models of victim involvement during plea negotiations: bridging the gap between legal reforms and current legal practice.(Canada)(Forum: The Role of the Victim in Plea Bargaining/Rubrique speciale sur le role de la victime dans les negociations de plaidoyer)
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice
; ...in countries such as Canada, the United States...criminal court system (Verdun-Jones and Hatch 1988...1979; Griffiths and Verdun-Jones 1994; Verdun-Jones and Hatch 1987...to date, victims in Canada have been granted a formal...
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