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...Adriano Olivetti is one of Italy's most successful businessmen. When he took over the business from his father in 1932, Olivetti had 1,200 employees and one plant. Now, from his main office at Ivrea, 29 miles from Turin, Adriano Olivetti heads a company with 11,000 workers, six manufacturing plants (four in Italy, one each in Spain and Scotland). His products, used in dozens of countries, are so handsomely designed that they have been displayed at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. In 1953, Olivetti machines earned Italy more dollars ($2,400,000 ) than any other...
Olivetti's workers in Ivrea get low-cost meals in a company cafeteria, free med ical care, have summer camps and a kindergarten for their children. A substantial number (15%) live in trim, modern Olivetti housing projects; their wages (average: $80 a month), while low by U.S. standards, are among the highest in Italian industry...
Famed on two churchly accounts is the town of Ivrea in the foothills of the Italian Alps. In Ivrea St. Patrick stopped on his way from Rome to Ireland. In the mountains overlooking Ivrea is the birthplace and home of Pietro Yon, famed organist of Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral...