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TIL in 1987, United Airlines purchased Hertz, Westin, and Hilton for $2.3 billion, and rebranded itself as Allegis Corp., a one-stop fly-drive-sleep travel company. Stock prices tanked, investors balked, and it was dismantled less than 4 months later.

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