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Discount Tire. The Reinalt-Thomas Corporation, doing business as Discount Tire and America's Tire, is an independent tire and wheel retailer. It operates in 38 of the lower 48 states, and headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona. Founded in 1960, it is considered the largest independent retailer of tires and wheels in the world. [ 1][ 2]
The Firestone and Ford tire controversy of the 1990s saw hundreds of people die in automobile crashes caused by the failure of Firestone tires installed on light trucks and SUVs made by Ford Motor Company . Unusually high failure rates of P235/75R15 ATX, ATX II, and Wilderness AT tires installed on the first-generation Ford Explorer and similar ...
Bruce Halle. Bruce Thomas Halle [2] [3] (May 27, 1930 – January 4, 2018) was an American businessman, and the founder and chairman of Discount Tire. [1] [4] He was the wealthiest person in Arizona, with an estimated net worth of $5.2 billion at the time of his death. [5]
Over the past two decades, more than 40,000 boys and girls in 16 states have gone through one of Slattery’s prisons, boot camps or detention centers, according to a Huffington Post analysis of juvenile facility data. The private prison industry has long fueled its growth on the proposition that it is a boon to taxpayers, delivering better ...
S 141. In a trial in a U.S. federal court, the Daubert Standard governs the admission of expert testimony from non-scientists as well. Kumho Tire Co. v. Carmichael, 526 U.S. 137 (1999), is a United States Supreme Court case that applied the Daubert standard to expert testimony from non-scientists.
In September 2013, Pep Boys acquired 18 Discount Tire Centers in Southern California, enabling the company to boast, "Seventy-five percent of Los Angeles-area residents now live within three miles of Pep Boys." [5] In September 2014, Mike Odell resigned as president and CEO and John Sweetwood became Interim CEO. [18]
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Johnson & Johnson has cleared a key threshold of support for its proposed $6.5-billion settlement of tens of thousands of lawsuits alleging its baby powder and other talc ...
firestone .com. Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is an American tire company founded by Harvey S. Firestone (1868–1938) in 1900 initially to supply solid rubber side-wire tires [ 2] for fire apparatus, [ 3] and later, pneumatic tires for wagons, buggies, and other forms of wheeled transportation common in the era.