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This biography of Martha Billes is a story about love and ambition and how the two cannot always coexist.
"Can't Buy Me Love: How Martha Billes Made Canadian Tire Hers" 2001
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If Martha Billes were a man, she would go about her business life unobserved.
"Can't Buy Me Love: How Martha Billes Made Canadian Tire Hers" 2001
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Riviere had the same surname (Billes) as my great grandfather, and I discovered that the Billes clan had dominated the village since the 1500s.
Lalita Tademy Chats with BookBrowse about Her Latest Book, Red River 2006
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This dumbe signe the Watch discerned not, but sitting downe by the Welles side, they layde downe their Billes and other weapons, tugging to draw up the rope, thinking the Bucket was fastened thereto, and full of water.
The Decameron 2004
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Being come forth of the Well, and treading on Billes and Halbards, which he well knew that his companions had not brought thither with them; his mervaile so much the more encreased, ignorance and feare still seizing him, with silent bemoaning his many misfortunes, away thence he wandred, but hee wist not whither.
The Decameron 2004
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If Martha Billes were cast in a movie she would be Joan Crawford in Mildred Pierce, all high cheekbones, flashing eyes, and firm practicality.
"Can't Buy Me Love: How Martha Billes Made Canadian Tire Hers" 2001
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In the four years since 1997 when Martha Billes bought out her brothers, daughters have begun to inherit businesses from their fathers.
"Can't Buy Me Love: How Martha Billes Made Canadian Tire Hers" 2001
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Here's a quick sketch of her life: Born in Toronto to Muriel and A.J. Billes, who, along with his brother founded Canadian Tire in the 1920s.
"Can't Buy Me Love: How Martha Billes Made Canadian Tire Hers" 2001
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There had previously been a book written about the Billes family, but it had been published in 1989.
"Can't Buy Me Love: How Martha Billes Made Canadian Tire Hers" 2001
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As controlling shareholder of Canadian Tire, Martha Billes oversees a huge national empire with 441 stores, 206 service stations, 38,000 employees, and $5.2 billion in annual revenue.
"Can't Buy Me Love: How Martha Billes Made Canadian Tire Hers" 2001
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