Sloan was soon in close touch with many of the pioneers of the car industry, men such as Henry Ford and William Durant.

之后斯隆就和汽车工业的很多先锋人物，包括亨利•福特（Henry Ford） 和威廉•杜兰特（William Durant）密切接触。

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William Durant established the company in nineteen hundred eight in Flint,Michigan.

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But you won't recognize what's left of the automaker William Durant cobbled together in 1908 and Alfred P.

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Developer William West Durant's Camp Pine Knot, begun on Raquette Lake in 1877, established the architectural idiom of these retreats--log-cabin construction, stone chimneys, decorative woodwork--and the camps proliferated throughout the dense woods of northeastern New York.

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