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Di Giorgio Enlarges Huge Delano WineryAgriculturalist, Once Penniless Immigrant, Amasses Fortune in Kern(Continued Fnlife in America is a series of finan* rial ups and downs, blit each setback was more than matched by a stride back into the financial stratosphere.Starts With $50‘Born June 10, 1874, at Cefalu, 40 miles from Palermo, in Sicily, Pi Giorgio was more interested as a boy in the growing, harvesting and marketing of lemons than he was in school. By the time he was 14 years old, he was determined to make his way to America, His father gave him $50.“One of the rules of my life/* Pi Giorgio said, “taught me by my father when I left home was impressed upon me in this way: He said to me, ‘Mv son when you leave here’—he didn’t want me to go, by the way—rwherever you go, whatever you say, if you can't do anybody any good, don’t do anybody any harm*/*
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Bakersfield Californian
Bakersfield, California, US
Tue, May 12, 1942
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DC, USA 10 Nov 2023
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