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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After World War II, Blacksmith Henrique Pedro de Sanson expanded his Rio shop to make boiler tanks. In 1950 he went into oil-storage tanks, in 1956 into specialized truck bodies-dump trucks, asphalt spreaders, tank trailers. "Business has increased 300% to 400% every year since I started," says Millionaire Sanson. Along with 39,892 other businesses (quadrupled since 1946), San-son's enterprise is riding a boom that has kited Brazil's gross national product up 63% in the past ten years, has boosted the per capita G.N.P. 29%-allowing for a population explosion from...
Love Is a Swingin1 Word (Sid Ramin & Orchestra; RCA Victor Stereo). A band that takes off like a Brahma bull tears through a china shop full of familiar items-I Can't Give You Anything But Love, I Wish I Were in Love Again-with wonderful gusto...
Based on a study of workers in a New England factory, Roethlisberger's book states that workers who are "in" with the shop group are "on-the-line" producers--turning out what the group considers "a fair day's work for a fair...
Chris's father James Smith ran a blacksmith shop but seldom worked in it (he always said it was too much trouble holding the horse up). He liked guns better, and he could also scratch out a middling tune on the fiddle. Young Chris's closest companion was his older brother Hank, who regularly got one haircut a year (from his mother), boasted that he never changed his winter underwear in summer. The brothers spent most of their time hunting and fishing on the flats and marshy lands that flank the river. Chris Smith never bothered with high...
After Chris married Anna Rattray in 1884, ne settled down to raise a family-four boys, two girls. As soon as the youngsters were old enough to hold a clamp, he set them to work in the waterfront boat shop. In 1896, two years after his success with his first naphtha-gas boat, he and Hank tried a 2-h.p. Sintz gasoline engine. "It never ran well," says Chris's son Jay, 74, "until Charles Sintz showed up from Grand Rapids two years later with a gadget he called a carburetor...