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==Business career== After a stint in the [[United States Army Air Service]] during [[World War I]], Read started a grocery wholesale business in [[Ann Arbor, Michigan]], which was initially successful but eventually went out of business. He moved to [[California]] where he started a new career in the tiny [[Burlingame, California|Burlingame]] [[Chamber of Commerce]] near [[San Francisco, California|San Francisco]]. Read gradually moved up the hierarchy of the [[United States Chamber of Commerce]], finally becoming general manager of the [[Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce|Los Angeles branch]], the U.S.'s largest, in 1939.
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