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     By Spring this operation was earning a sub-
stantial income and I was pretty busy spend-
ing money as well as attending medical school.  
When the concession for the barber shops at the 
Atomic Project in Hanford, Washington, came 
up, I found time to go to Hanford and pursue 
the people in charge to grant me the concession 
to operate these shops.  I formed a partnership 
with a brother and cousin, and my junior year in 
medical school found me involved with two sepa-
rate business operations that employed around 
70 men and several women.  There were many 
problems that required my personal attention 
and my time was spread so thin that I could not 
do anything properly.  My social activities were 
also extensive.  I owned a cabin cruiser on the 
Willamette River as well as a new Mercury  
convertible and all the attachments of a man 
about town.
     , Go not thinN that m\ e[tra cXrricXlar actiYi-
ties went over too well with the professors at the 
University of Oregon Medical School, although 
scholasticall\ , Zas getting along fine, for , Zas 
in the Xpper tenth of m\ class, anG it looNeG  
liNe , Zas a cinch to get m\ 0'  +oZeYer,  
GXring the first month of m\ senior \ear, , Zas 
suspended from medical school.  This was a 
severe blow, for I had put seven years of hard 
ZorN into m\ meGical career  7here proEaEl\ 
were a number of factors involved: however, the 
crux of the matter was that I had answered in 
class for my lab partner, and though it was a 
common thing to be done at the time, I tried it 
on the wrong professor.
A History of U-Haul (1945-1954)

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