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...years ago, the story goes, an M.I.T. undergraduate boarded a streetcar and asked the motorman to change a five-dollar bill. Meanwhile several of his friends welded the lead wheels of the car to the track, in an experimental application of thermite welding...
...Porter school, Joao shared a bench with three other Natal boys. One of them is now a federal Senator, another the president of an insurance company, the third, Manuel Leopoldino, is a streetcar motorman in Rio. A fortnight ago, Leopoldino, wearing his navy blue motor-man's uniform, went to visit the President at Catete Palace. Cafe Filho recognized him at once, embraced him warmly. "Can I help you in any way, Manuel?" he asked. "No thanks, Joao," said the motorman. "I just wanted to see you. I like my job. It's steady work. Another five years...
Hottest Thing in France. Italian-born Motorman Pigozzi, 56, has had a supercharged rise in the French auto business. He left the scrap business in 1926 to become the French distributor of Italy's Fiat cars. When he ran into import and tariff troubles, he took over a small assembly plant in France. In 1934, after assembling 32,000 Fiats, he bought out a bankrupt auto factory near Paris for $300,000 and organized Simca (Sociéte Industrielle de Mécanique et Carrosserie Automobile). Gradually he loosened his ties with Fiat, and today Simca, while it still...
...returns." The motorman stops...
...Yorba Linda, Calif., a small (present pop. 885), citrus-growing town near Los Angeles, to Frank (Scotch-Irish ancestry) and Hannah Milhous Nixon (Irish-English), who migrated from the Middle West to California in their youth, married in 1908, are still hale & hearty. Father worked as streetcar motorman, oilfield worker, rancher, built filling station at Whittier, Calif., later added a grocery store, now known as Nixon's Market and run by Dick's younger brother...