The Stallion by Harold Robbins

Author:Harold Robbins [Robbins, Harold]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Thriller, (¯`'•.¸//(*_*)\\¸.•'´¯)
Published: 2011-12-31T00:00:00+00:00

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In March Cindy gave birth to a baby girl they named Mary.

Keijo Shigeto and his wife, Toshiko, arrived in Greenwich the following week. Their children would come later, when their school year was completed. In the meantime they would live with their grandparents in Tokyo.

Angelo had decided to establish Keijo in Greenwich, where he could help him and where he would be handy for consultation as often as possible. He provided him an office in the Angelo Perino, Incorporated, suite of offices on Third Avenue and accompanied him on the train on his first few commutes.

Cindy had hoped to be able to help Toshiko establish herself in Greenwich, but the move had been planned during the final stages of her pregnancy and had been accomplished within a week of the birth of Mary. Fortunately, she was not needed to help the family find a house. Shizoka took care of that. There was a Japanese real estate agency in Greenwich. Japanese companies bought houses and leased them to their own employees or the employees of other companies during their time in the States. Keijo leased a house on a hillside street in the Cos Cob area of Greenwich, furnished and entirely ready for the family to move in.

It was not where Cindy would have suggested they live. Keijo had a three-mile drive to the railroad station. Toshiko would have to drive two miles or so to the grocery store and the post office. Within two weeks of arriving, the family had acquired two cars: a Buick and a Chrysler. Keijo drove the Buick to the station. Toshiko drove the Chrysler everywhere. They were fascinated with the big American cars. Neither of them drove well, but they drove.

Angelo had identified a vacant industrial plant in Danbury as a possible site for installing the machinery and personnel to manufacture the epoxy resin material that would become the bodies for the XB 2000. The manufacturing process was not heavy industry. The liquid material was rolled out into large, thin sheets, which could be stretched over fiberglass forms to shape it into fenders, doors, hoods, and so on. As many as twenty layers would be laid on, fastened together with epoxy cement, forming laminated body parts that would be extraordinarily strong and resilient, as well as light in weight.

Single sheets of the material could easily be trimmed with scissors, though they would in fact be trimmed with specialized electric shears that cut by vibration rather than mechanical movement. The plant would use no dangerous machine tools, and there would be no heavy lifting. Care had to be taken with the chemicals, but workers could be trained to protect themselves. Once a sheet hardened, as someone put it, it could safely be used in place of a rubber sheet in a baby crib.

Manufacture of epoxy resin sheets would employ a hundred workers or so at first, and most of them could be women. The little city of Danbury enthusiastically welcomed Angelo Perino and Keijo Shigeto. They

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