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Show Builds S3 to Million An immigrant who landed in California with $3 in his pocket in 1913 is living testimony today to-day that America is the land of opportunity. Mauro Simone, 56 years old, has built up a fortune of about $i;500,000 in his 37 years in America. He owns a $33,000 home and 2,000 acres of fig orchard. His first big chance came in 1925, when he leased a fig orchard and grossed $10,-000. $10,-000. He never went to school, but knows that initiative and application ap-plication bring in the money. |