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45-748: The Dixie Greyhound Lines (called also Dixie or DGL ), a highway-coach carrier, was a Greyhound regional operating company, based in Memphis, Tennessee , USA, from 1930 until 1954, when it (along with the Teche Greyhound Lines ) became merged into the Southeastern Greyhound Lines , a neighboring operating company. The Dixie Greyhound Lines (GL) began in 1925 in Memphis (on the Mississippi River and in

90-725: A Buick (straight-8) or Chevrolet (straight-6) gasoline engine.] He soon extended from Little Rock to Memphis. In 1943 he bought the Bowen Motor Coach Company (based in Fort Worth, Texas ), which had become a major carrier through a large part of the Lone-star State. [The Bowen firm was already a member of the Trailways association and thus was called also the Bowen Trailways.] Thus began

135-533: A devastating downturn in the waterborne trade, both the father and the son worked temporarily for Clarence Saunders , the famous wholesale grocer in Memphis, the inventor of the concept of self-service retail grocery stores, the builder and the owner of the Pink Palace mansion (later and now a museum), and the man who made and lost a fortune as the founder of the Piggly Wiggly grocery-store chain.] By

180-441: A diversified conglomerate between the 1960s and the 1990s. Viad Corp was founded in 1926 as Motor Transit Corporation after intercity bus operators Eric Wickman and Orville Caesar joined forces and consolidated several bus operations . By 1930, more than 100 bus lines had been consolidated and recognizing the need for a more memorable name, the company was renamed The Greyhound Corporation . The Greyhound name had its origins in

225-870: A neighboring regional company, the Teche GL (called also Teche or TGL), based in New Orleans, Louisiana, into the Southeastern GL, another neighboring operating company, based in Lexington, Kentucky. The three fleets of the three divisions became combined into a single fleet. Thus ended the Dixie GL. After that merger the expanded SEG Lines served 12 states along 13,227 route-miles of highways – from Cincinnati (in Ohio ), Saint Louis, Memphis, Vicksburg, Baton Rouge , New Orleans, and Lake Charles (all

270-653: A new company, named as the Greyhound Lines, Inc., called also GLI, based in Dallas, Texas – a separate, independent, unrelated firm, which was the property of a group of private investors under the promotion of Fred Currey, a former executive of the Continental Trailways (later renamed as the Trailways, Inc., called also TWI, also based in Dallas), which was by far the largest member company in

315-534: A one-for-four reverse stock split. Between 1981 and 2013, Glacier Park Inc. was also the concessionaire for Lake McDonald Lodge, Apgar Village Inn, Rising Sun Auto Camp , Swiftcurrent Inn, Many Glacier Hotel , Two Medicine Store , and the Red Jammers within Glacier National Park. The National Park Service awarded this concession to Xanterra Parks and Resorts starting in 2014. In 2010,

360-410: A president has the duties of presiding over meetings. Such duties at meetings include: While presiding, a president remains impartial and does not interrupt speakers if a speaker has the floor and is following the rules of the group. In committees or small boards, the president votes along with the other members. However, in assemblies or larger boards, the president should vote only when it can affect

405-524: A succession of new owners and new executives – while continuing to reduce its level of service – by hauling fewer passengers aboard fewer coaches on fewer trips along fewer routes with fewer stops in fewer communities in fewer states – and by doing so on fewer days – that is, increasingly operating some trips less often than every day (fewer than seven days per week) – and by using fewer through-coaches, thus requiring passengers to make more transfers (from one coach to another). After

450-750: A ticket agent at a bus station in Little Rock, Arkansas ). Sometime late in the -30s Moore left the DGL, then he founded the Arkansas Motor Coaches, based in Little Rock, bought 16 Flxible Clippers, and started running them between Little Rock and Texarkana via Hot Springs . [A Flxible Clipper, a product of The Flxible Company , built in Loudonville, Ohio , was a small, short, modest, relatively inexpensive coach with 21-29 seats and

495-660: The Atlantic GL (called also Atlantic or AGL), yet another neighboring regional company, based in Charleston, West Virginia , with – not into but rather with – the Southeastern GL – thereby creating the Southern Division of The Greyhound Corporation (called also the Southern GL), the third of four huge new divisions (along with Central, Eastern, and Western). Thus ended the Southeastern GL, and thus began

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540-470: The Jasper SkyTram . President (corporate title) Originally, the term president was used in the same way that foreman or overseer is used now (the term is still used in that sense today). It has now also come to mean "chief officer" in terms of administrative or executive duties. The powers of the president vary widely across organizations. In some organizations the president has

585-603: The Roman or Latin letter L.] The website of the Viad Corporation ( http://www.viad.com ) in September 2008 makes no mention of its corporate history or its past relationship to Greyhound – that is, its origin as The Greyhound Corporation. For a while during the 1930s Maurice Edwin (M.E.) Moore, from Jackson, Tennessee, worked as a field passenger agent for the Dixie GL (after first working in 1928 at age 18 as

630-618: The Banff Gondola. In 2017, the company established its Pursuit division and acquired FlyOver Canada , a 60-seat flight simulation experience in Canada Place , Vancouver, British Columbia which features various Canadian landmarks. In 2021, Pursuit acquired the Golden Skybridge attraction. In 2022, Pursuit acquired Glacier Raft Company and related lodging, land, and other assets. In 2024, Pursuit acquired

675-790: The Continental Bus System, which soon led to the formation of the Transcontinental Bus System, both based in Dallas, Texas, both using the brand name, trade name, or service name of the Continental Trailways, which together eventually became by far the largest member company in the National Trailways association, and which in 1968 became a subsidiary of the Holiday Inns of America, based in Memphis, and later became renamed as

720-621: The GLE arose, many of those administrative functions became shifted to Cleveland, Ohio ; later yet those functions migrated to Chicago, Illinois, then to Phoenix, Arizona , when (in 1971) The Greyhound Corporation moved its corporate headquarters from Chicago to a new building in Phoenix. In 1987 The Greyhound Corporation (the original umbrella Greyhound firm), which had become widely diversified far beyond passenger transportation, sold its entire highway-coach operating business (its core bus business) to

765-700: The Southern GL. Later (about 1966) The Greyhound Corporation reorganized again, into just two humongous divisions, named as the Greyhound Lines East (GLE) and the Greyhound Lines West (GLW); even later (about 1970) it eliminated those two divisions, thus leaving a single gargantuan undivided nationwide fleet. When the Southern GL came into existence, the headquarters functions became gradually transferred from Lexington, Kentucky, and Charleston, West Virginia, to Atlanta, Georgia; when

810-1072: The Teche GL to the south, the Southwestern GL to the west, and the Capitol GL , the Central GL, the Great Lakes GL, and the Pennsylvania GL to the north. The DGL took part in major interlined through-routes (using pooled equipment in cooperation with other Greyhound companies) – that is, the use of through-coaches on through-routes running through the territories of two or more Greyhound regional operating companies – between Kansas City and Memphis, Saint Louis and New Orleans, Chicago and New Orleans, Saint Louis and Nashville, Memphis and Detroit , Dallas and Knoxville , Dallas and Atlanta , Memphis and Miami , and Memphis and both Washington and New York City . In October 1954 The Greyhound Corporation merged Dixie and

855-687: The Trailways trade association (then named as the National Trailways Bus System ). Later in 1987 the Greyhound Lines, Inc., the GLI, the new firm based in Dallas, further bought also the Trailways, Inc., the TWI, its largest competitor , and merged it into the GLI. The lenders and the other investors of the GLI ousted Fred Currey (as the chief executive officer ) after the firm went into bankruptcy in 1990. The GLI has continued to experience difficulties and lackluster performance under

900-801: The Trailways, Inc., the TWI – which the Greyhound Lines, Inc., the GLI, bought in 1987 and merged into the GLI. The Greyhound Corporation Viad Corp provides experiential leisure travel and face-to-face events in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Europe, Iceland, and the United Arab Emirates via two divisions: GES and Pursuit. Pursuit (formed in 2017) includes travel attractions and hotels in and around Banff , Denali , Glacier , Jasper , Kenai Fjords , and Waterton Lakes National Parks in Canada and

945-1108: The United States. Properties that Pursuit operates under its Glacier Park Collection include Grouse Mountain Lodge in Whitefish , Glacier Park Lodge in East Glacier , St. Mary Lodge and Resort in St. Mary , Stewart Hotel near Lake McDonald Lodge , Prince of Wales Hotel in Waterton, Alberta . Pursuit's Alaska Collection includes Denali Backcountry Lodge, Denali Backcountry Adventure, Denali Cabins, Talkeetna Alaskan Lodge, Seward Windsong Lodge, Kenai Fjords Wilderness Lodge, Kenai Fjords Tours. GES partners with show organizers, exhibitors, and brand marketers to create face-to-face events. The company handles design and production, material handling, rigging, electrical, and other on-site event services. The company evolved from The Greyhound Corporation , which established Greyhound Lines and later became

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990-456: The authority to hire staff and make financial decisions, while in others the president only makes recommendations to a board of directors , and still others the president has no executive powers and is mainly a spokesperson for the organization. The amount of power given to the president depends on the type of organization, its structure, and the rules it has created for itself. In addition to administrative or executive duties in organizations,

1035-415: The businesses were sold except for Travelers Express, Glacier Park, GES Exposition Services, and Exhibitgroup/Giltspur. In 2003, Viad began the process of engineering a reverse tax-free spinoff of Travelers Express. Thus, a new subsidiary was formed, MoneyGram International, Inc., which early in 2004 received the payment services business and its stock was distributed to Viad stockholders. Viad then conducted

1080-796: The company announced the splitting of its businesses into two entities. The Dial consumer products business was spun-off as the new Dial Corporation. After the split, the company was renamed Viad Corp and consisted of companies involved in airline catering (Dobbs International Service); airplane fueling and ground handling (Aircraft Service International); convention and exhibit services (GES Exposition Services and Exhibitgroup/Giltspur); concession operations (Glacier Park, Inc.); contract food services (Restaura, Inc.); ocean cruises ( Premier Cruise Lines ); airport and cruise ship duty-free concessions (Greyhound Leisure Services); travel services (Brewster Transport, Jetsave, and Crystal Holidays); and payment services ( Travelers Express ). By early 21st century, most of

1125-554: The company established GES (Global Experience Specialists, Inc., formerly GES Exposition Services, Inc.) by merging GES Exposition Services, Inc., Exhibitgroup/Giltspur, and Becker Group. In 2012, Pursuit acquired the 162-room Banff International Hotel. Pursuit also operates other Banff and Jasper area attractions under the Brewster Travel Canada brand, including Banff's 133-room Mount Royal Hotel, Jasper National Park's 32-room Glacier View Lodge, Banff Lake Cruises and

1170-959: The east-northeast on US-70 – then extended three routes – the Jackson line to Nashville (the capital of the Volunteer State and in the center of it), the Dyersburg line to Union City , and the Bolivar line to Selmer and soon onward to the east along the southern margin of the state to Chattanooga. Even more growth came quickly, taking the firm outside Tennessee: In 1930 the Smith company reached Paducah in Kentucky , Evansville in Indiana , and Saint Louis in Missouri , and in

1215-532: The end of his second year in business, Smith owned and ran 25 coaches; by the end of his third year, he had 60. [In the early years Fred operated in Memphis his own plant in which he built his bus bodies and mounted them on the truck chassis .] During its first four years the Smith Motor Coach Company started two more routes – to Covington and on to Dyersburg , about 75 miles to the north on US-51 , and to Jackson , about 82 miles to

1260-421: The financial services industry in 1992 with the sale of GFC Financial Corporation (including Greyhound Financial Corporation, Greyhound European Financial Group and Verex Corporation). In 1995, GFC Financial Corporation changed its name to The FINOVA Group, Inc. and Greyhound Financial Corporation to FINOVA Capital Corporation. The FINOVA Group filed for bankruptcy in 2001 and was dissolved in 2009. In 1996,

1305-469: The inaugural run of a bus route from Superior, Wisconsin , to Wausau, Wisconsin . While passing through a small town, Ed Stone, the route's operator, saw the reflection of his bus in a store window. The reflection reminded him of a greyhound and he adopted that name for that segment of the Blue Goose Lines. The Greyhound name became popular, and was applied to the entire bus network as well as

1350-1006: The last three in Louisiana) – to Savannah (in Georgia ) and Jacksonville (in Florida ) – from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Ohio River to the Gulf of Mexico . In October 1957 The Greyhound Corporation merged also the Florida GL (called also FGL), one more neighboring operating company, based in Jacksonville, Florida , into the SEGL. In November 1960 Greyhound further merged

1395-633: The long-time SEG headquarters – until he died in 1955. By 1954 Dixie ran from Memphis to Saint Louis, Paducah, Evansville, Nashville, Chattanooga, Florence and Birmingham (both in Alabama), and Columbus , Jackson, and Vicksburg (all three in Mississippi), plus along branch lines to Jonesboro (in Arkansas ) and in West Tennessee. The Dixie GL met the Southeastern GL to the east,

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1440-774: The management of the Dixie GL (and later into Toddle House as well). [Earl had worked (in both passenger service and dining-car operations) for the Frisco (SL&SF) Railway and the Santa Fe (AT&SF) Railroad – and for the Fred Harvey organization in the hospitality industry in the Far West .] Fred also served a short time as a commissioned officer in the US Naval Reserve during World War II . In 1948 Fred Smith suddenly died, and Earl succeeded Fred as

1485-502: The next several years the chain expanded through a number of states, opening as many as 50 new stores per year. [Toddle House in 1955 served as the pattern for the creation of the Waffle House chain, partly because one of the founders of the latter had worked as a manager for the former (even while taking part in founding the latter).] In January 1930 Fred Smith drew a brother, Earl William Smith Sr., two years younger than he, into

1530-800: The next year, 1931, it reached Birmingham in Alabama and Jackson in Mississippi (on the way to New Orleans in Louisiana ). In 1931 The Greyhound Corporation bought a controlling (majority) interest in the Smith Motor Coach Company, renamed it as the Dixie Greyhound Lines, and appointed Frederick Smith as the president of the DGL (as a subsidiary of the parent Greyhound firm). Later in 1931 Dixie reached as far north as Springfield and Effingham (both in Illinois and on

1575-409: The north end of Shelby County (of which Memphis is the seat), about 25 miles from downtown Memphis to the north-northeast on state road 14 (an alternate route to Brownsville ), and soon also between Memphis and Bolivar , about 66 miles to the east on US highway 64 , on the way to Chattanooga . James Frederick Smith was the son of Captain James Buchanan "Jim Buck" Smith, who commanded steamboats on

1620-739: The parent company. Wickman retired as president of Greyhound in 1946 and was succeeded by Caesar. Wickman died at the age of 66 in 1954. Caesar died on May 19, 1965, a day before his 75th birthday. In 1954, Greyhound established Greyhound Financial Corporation, the captive finance operation of the bus line. During the 1960s, Greyhound began its transformation into a conglomerate by diversifying into other industries: financial services ( Travelers Express ); food and consumer products ( Armour and Company ); food service (Prophet Company); restaurants ( Horne's ); airport services (Aircraft Services International); and ocean cruises ( Premier Cruise Line ). Greyhound acquired Glacier Park, Inc. in 1981. Greyhound exited

1665-413: The particular organization would provide details on who can perform these disciplinary procedures and the extent that they can be done. Usually, whoever appointed or elected the president has the power to discipline this officer. Some organizations may have a position of president-elect in addition to the position of president. Generally the membership of the organization elects a president-elect and when

1710-464: The president of Dixie; then in 1949 The Greyhound Corporation bought the minority interest of the Smith family. Earl remained as the president of Dixie (as a division of the parent Greyhound firm) until -54, when Greyhound merged the DGL into the Southeastern GL (called also Southeastern, SEG, SEGL, or the SEG Lines). Earl then served as a vice president of the SEGL, although he chose to maintain his office in Memphis rather than Lexington, Kentucky ,

1755-462: The result. At a meeting, the president only has one vote (i.e. the president cannot vote twice and cannot override the decision of the group unless the organisation has specifically given the president such authority). If the president exceeds the given authority, engages in misconduct, or fails to perform the duties, the president may face disciplinary procedures. Such procedures may include censure , suspension, or removal from office . The rules of

1800-549: The rivers Mississippi, Ohio , Tennessee , and Cumberland – for several owners, including the Ryman Line, the property of Captain Tom Ryman, who in 1892 gave the funds for the construction of the Union Gospel Tabernacle in Nashville (which became renamed as the Ryman Auditorium after the benefactor died in 1904, and which served as the home of the Grand Ole Opry from 1943 until 1974). Early in his life (before age 20) young Smith discarded his first name, strongly preferring to be known as Fred or Frederick. In late 1909, after

1845-419: The sale to the GLI, The Greyhound Corporation changed its name to the Greyhound-Dial Corporation, then the Dial Corporation , then the Viad Corporation . [The contrived name Viad appears to be a curious respelling of the former name Dial – if one scrambles the letters D, I, and A, then turns the V upside down and regards it as the Greek letter lambda – Λ – that is, the Greek equivalent of

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1890-449: The southwest corner of Tennessee ) as the Smith Motor Coach Company, when James Frederick Smith, a former (and successful) truck salesman, received a used truck as a gift from his previous employer (John Fisher, a dealer, who owned the Memphis Motor Company). Smith removed the truck body, built a 12-seat bus body instead on the chassis, and started driving the vehicle himself, first between Memphis and Rosemark, northeast of Millington , in

1935-439: The term of the president-elect is complete, that person automatically becomes president. Some organizations may have a position of immediate past president in addition to the position of president. In those organizations, when the term of the president is complete, that person automatically fills the position of immediate past president. The organization can have such a position only if the bylaws provide it. The duties of such

1980-447: The transportation industry with the sale of Greyhound Lines in 1987. By then, The Dial Corporation (formerly, Armour-Dial, Inc., established in 1967 as a subsidiary of Armour and Company) was its largest subsidiary. Greyhound was renamed Greyhound Dial Corporation in 1990 and as The Dial Corp the following year. After the renaming, the Dial consumer business became known as The Dial Corp Consumer Products Group. The company exited

2025-456: The way to Chicago ), thereby completing a Greyhound direct through-route between Chicago and New Orleans via Memphis, by connecting with other Greyhound regional companies to the north (the Illinois GL, later the Central GL, even later the Great Lakes GL ) and to the south (the Teche GL). In 1932 Smith (along with J.C. Stedman, an entrepreneur from Houston, Texas ) also founded the Toddle House restaurant chain , based too in Memphis. For

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