Hertz

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A car rental company that was founded in the early 1920s by John D. Hertz. Its first rental office was opened in 1932 at the Midway Airport in Chicago, with many more to follow over the next decades as the company grew steadily. Today Hertz is a multinational corporation with branches all over the U.S. as well as in many countries abroad.

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