ROSE TO TOP IN 39 YEARS
American Visitor ToN.Z. (N.Z. Pre xs Association) AUCKLAND, Jan. 9. A man who, in 39 years, rose from taxi-driver to vice-presi-dent of the second largest cab company in the United States, arrived in Auckland yesterday for a week’s visit Mr J. W. Pettit, aged 74, of San Francisco, who in 1961 became vice-president of the Yellow Cap Company of California, said his formula for climbing to the top was consideration for other people. As a boy, he lived in a log cabin in the back hills of California. He was given his first pair of shoes at the age of 11. Before becoming a taxi driver in 1923, he worked as a baker, bell-boy, elevator-boy. barman and masseur. He is making a three-month tour of the Pacific on a mission to create “greater travel and person-to-person communications between the people of North America and the Pacific.”
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 30954, 10 January 1966, Page 10
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152ROSE TO TOP IN 39 YEARS Press, Volume CV, Issue 30954, 10 January 1966, Page 10
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