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Fred W. Smith (born August 11, 1944) is the founder of Federal Express, or FedEx, the first overnight express delivery company in the world, and the largest in the United States. The company is based in Memphis, Tennessee. August 11 is the 223rd day of the year (224th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1944 calendar). ...
FedEx (NYSE: FDX), properly FedEx Corporation, is a door-to-door escort company offering overnight courier, ground, heavy freight, document copying and logistics services. ...
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Fred Smith was born in Marks, Mississippi. He attended high school at Memphis University School, and he received his bachelor's degree in economics from Yale University in 1966, where he wrote a paper on the idea of FedEx (which has been embellished to an urban legend state), became a member of Skull and Bones, and then served in the US Marine Corps for five years as a platoon leader and pilot, where he observed the military's logistics system as well as undertaking a tour of duty during the Vietnam War. After being honorably discharged, Smith purchased the controlling interest in an aircraft maintenance company, Ark Aviation Sales, and by 1971 turned its focus to trading used jets. On June 18, 1971, Smith founded Federal Express with $91 million in venture capital and his $4 million inheritance. In 1973, the company began offering service to 25 cities.[1] Marks is a city located in Quitman County, Mississippi. ...
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1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ...
Emblem of the Skull and Bones society Skull and Bones is one of the secret societies based at Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut. ...
United States Marine Corps Emblem The United States Marine Corps (USMC) is the second smallest of the five branches of the United States armed forces, with 170,000 active and 40,000 reserve Marines as of 2002. ...
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1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ...
June 18 is the 169th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (170th in leap years), with 196 days remaining. ...
1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ...
1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ...
A classmate of George W. Bush while at Yale there was some specualtion that he could be appointed as Defense Secretary when Bush became president. Despite some speculation and even pushing from former Senator and Reagan Chief of Staff Howard Baker he was not appointed. Donald Rumsfeld was named instead. George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American businessman and politician, was elected in 2000 as the 43rd President of the United States of America, re-elected in 2004, and is currently serving his second term in that office. ...
Seal of the United States Department of Defense The United States Secretary of Defense is the head of the United States Department of Defense, concerned with the armed services and The Secretary is appointed by the President with the approval of the Senate, and is a member of the Cabinet. ...
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Donald Henry Rumsfeld (born July 9, 1932, Evanston, Illinois) is the 21st United States Secretary of Defense. ...
He has a cameo appearance as himself in Cast Away, a film about a FedEx employee who is stranded on a deserted island after his plane crashes. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
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Quotes
- "We'd run out of money and we didn't have all the regulatory requirements that we needed. My half-sisters were up in arms because it looked like we were going to lose some money. Everything was going wrong, except the fundamentals of the business were proving every single day that the idea was right."
- "This is a guarantee. If we don't get it there, we don't get paid."
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