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Article: Follow the salesmen: how industry insiders challenged the car lobby.(CURRENTS)
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- E Magazine
- Article date:
- July 1, 2008
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Chuck Frank is the son of a man who billed himself as "The World's Largest Chevy Dealer." But Frank never wanted to sell cars. As a boy, his favorite pastimes were camping and fishing. He wanted an outdoor career, but that seemed impossible for a kid from Chicago. "If I'd known then what I know now I probably would have gone to law school and become an environmental lawyer," he says. "But that field was just getting started back then, in 1974." Insted, he thought forestry was the only environmental career option, but says, "I didn't know anything about agriculture or trees or botany. I just didn't see myself as a forest ranger."
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