Welcome to the Job Search SOS podcast!
I’m Nancy Pinto,
I’m Chris Pinto.
Together, we are Pinto Employment Search, a recruiting company specializing in the logistics and supply chain industry. You can find us online at pintoemployment.com, on LinkedIn and Facebook at Pinto Employment Search LLC, and Instagram at logisticsjobsusa. We’ll link to all those in the show notes. Please connect with us!
OK, we’ve got new trivia and updated jobs here.
Chris doesn’t know what any of the trivia is!
CALIFORNIA:
In the “Don’t forget where you came from” category, Beverly Hills used to be a lima bean farm! In 1838, the land was owned by Maria Rita Valdez Villa, a Mexican-African widow of a Spanish soldier. She started a cattle and horse ranch, and built a house at what is now the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Alpine Drive. Then in 1852, her ranch was attacked by Native Americans. She survived, but two years later, in 1854, she sold her land to Henry Hancock and Benjamin Wilson. A few years after that, a water shortage and drought killed their livestock. Fast forward to 1868, and the land has a new owner, Edward Preuss, who wanted to establish a community for immigrant German farmers. He was going to call it Santa Maria. In the meantime, he needed cash to pay taxes, so he converted the ranch into lima bean fields.
JOBS:
Long Beach - Sales Manager - Ocean Carrier
Los Angeles - Sales Executive - Freight Forwarder
Los Angeles - Sales Representative - Ocean Carrier
West Los Angeles - Ocean Import Operations Coordinator
GEORGIA:
Just a few miles from downtown Savannah is the small town of Pin Point, GA. Pin Point is home to a strong Gullah-Geechee community (Gullah refers to the language; Geechee refers to the people) whose ancestors were brought over from West Africa as slaves to work in Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Florida. The most famous resident of Pin Point is Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. The language, a mix of African American and Creole, was made up by the slaves to keep the plantation owners from knowing what they were saying. Through the centuries, they have kept up their traditions, including language, food, arts and crafts, music, and religion. Their values include simplicity, good manners, living by only what you need, and respect for elders. Please consider a visit to enjoy the beautiful nature, rich cultural traditions, and to learn more!
JOBS:
Atlanta - Sales Manager - Ocean Carrier
Woodstock - Export Coordinator - Shipper
ILLINOIS:
Many Chicago residents get around by train. In the winter, the tracks can easily freeze up and stall rail service. Can’t have that! So the city put on their thinking caps and came up with the idea to install little gas burners along the tracks to melt the snow and ice so that the trains could keep moving smoothly. Basically they set the tracks on fire!
JOBS:
Chicago - Sales Representative - Ocean Carrier
MARYLAND:
There’s a town in the upper left corner of Maryland called Accident. It was incorporated in 1916, and as of 2021 the population was 338. We will read from their official website to explain how the town got its peculiar and alarming name:
Quote: “About the year 1751, a grant of land was given to Mr. George Deakins by King George II, of England, in payment of a debt. According to the terms, Mr. Deakins was to receive 600 acres of land anywhere he chose in Western Maryland. Mr. Deakins sent out two corps of engineers, each without knowledge of the other group, to survey the best land in the area. After the survey, the engineers returned with their maps of the plots they had surveyed. To their surprise, they discovered they had surveyed a tract of land starting at the same tall Oak tree and returning to the start point. Mr. Deakins chose this plot of ground and had it patented “The Accident Tract;” hence, the name of the town.” end quote.
Nancy was hoping for something a little more juicy but she thought this was very cute.
JOBS:
Pikesville - Export Customer Service Rep (NVOCC)
MASSACHUSETTS:
Since we’re in the middle of basketball season, did you know that the game was invented in Springfield, MA by a 30-year old Canadian gym teacher named James Naismith? Mr. Naismith, who taught at the YMCA International Training School, needed something to keep the kids from getting bored in the winter. So he put on his thinking cap and invented this game where the object was to quote ”throw a soccer ball into a peach basket attached to a balcony 10 feet above the floor.” He came up with 13 rules, including 9 players per team, and on December 21, 1891 the first game was played.
JOBS:
Peabody - Air Export Coordinator
Peabody - Air Export Manager
Peabody - Licensed Customs Broker
NEW JERSEY:
How much do you know about the infamous Hindenburg disaster? Here’s a quick review and some interesting facts:
The Hindenburg was a luxurious passenger airship, the largest ever constructed. Think Titanic in the sky. It was designed and built by the Zeppelin Company (Luftschiffbau Zeppelin GmbH) in Friedrichshafen, Germany. It was operated by the German Zeppelin Airline Company (Deutsche Zeppelin-Reederei).
Construction began in 1932.
Length: 804 feet (to compare, a Boeing 747 is only 232 feet, and the Titanic was 883 feet)
First flight: March 4, 1936
Total # of flights: 63
Cruising speed: 76 mph
Max speed: 85 mph
It took roughly two days to cross the Atlantic.
In 1936, the Hindenburg made 17 round trips across the Atlantic (10 to the US and 7 to Brazil). It also surprised the Brits by flying over England a couple of times. In May 1936, it flew over central England, near Manchester, and dropped a package which landed in the town of Keighley. Two boys found it and opened it. It contained a small silver cross, a bouquet of carnations, and a letter dated May 22, 1936, which read: "To the finder of this letter, please deposit these flowers and cross on the grave of my dear brother, Lt. Franz Schulte, 1 Garde Regt, zu Fuss, POW in Skipton cemetery in Keighley near Leeds. Many thanks for your kindness. John P. Schulte, the first flying priest". However, historian Oliver Denton speculated that perhaps the Germans used that as an excuse to fly low over Northern England to get a good look at its industrial activities and geography.
The Hindenburg was powered by flammable hydrogen instead of helium because the US had a global monopoly on helium, and refused to export it to Germany for fear it would be used for military purposes (to be fair, the Nazis were coming into power then).
It had a smokers lounge (really), a specially-made lightweight piano (which actually wasn’t on board for the last flight), and 17,000 pieces of mail, some of which actually survived and was able to be delivered a few days later!
Last flight: May 6, 1937
# of souls aboard: 97
Accident site: Lakehurst, NJ (Lakehurst is in south Jersey, near the coast, about 60 miles south of Newark and 60 miles east of Philly).
That evening the Hindenburg was coming in for a landing, and was only around 200 feet up, when it burst into flames and plummeted to the ground.
# of survivors: 62
# of deaths: 36 (13 passengers, 22 crew onboard, and 1 worker on the ground)
Some survived by managing to jump out of the airship and run away!
The exclamation “Oh, the humanity!” came from radio reporter Herbert Morrison who covered the disaster.
The exact cause of the accident was never determined. Everything from faulty engineering to a gas leak to sabotage has been proposed.
JOBS:
Carlstadt - Airfreight Manager
East Rutherford - Airfreight Supervisor
Iselin - Assistant Sales Manager
Iselin - Customer Service/Operations Specialist
Jersey City - Sales Executive - Freight Forwarder
Kearny - Ocean Import Operations Coordinator
Springfield - Inside Sales Representative
Union - Sales Executive - Freight Forwarder
NEW YORK:
Now to something more fun than the Hindenburg. The ice cream cone was invented in New York City, by a resident of New Jersey, who had immigrated from Italy! The credit, and the patent, goes to Mr. Italo Pietro Marchiony, born on December 21, 1868, in Peaio, Italy, which is in the northern part of the country, not far from the Austrian border in fact. In 1890 he immigrated to the US. In 1896, he was living in Hoboken, NJ and selling iced treats from a pushcart on Wall Street. He used small glass bowls which customers were supposed to give back when they were done, but that didn’t work. So he spent the next few years trying to figure out another conduit for the ice cream. Finally, in 1902, he presented his newly invented edible waffle cone for a patent, which was awarded in 1903. In 1904 he traveled to the St. Louis Exposition to promote his tasty invention. From there he built quite a big business, even inventing the ice cream sandwich, described by Wall Street brokers as quote “more dignified to eat than ice cream cones.” End quote. Signor Italo retired comfortably in 1938 and died on July 27, 1954 at age 85 at his home in Cliffside Park, NJ. He is buried in Jersey City, NJ.
JOBS:
Jamaica - Licensed Customs Broker
VIRGINIA/DC:
Luray, VA, in the Shenandoah Valley, is home to the Luray Caverns, the largest cave system in the Eastern United States. It is known as the Geology Hall of Fame. Its formation took over 4 million CENTURIES. Its modern discovery was in 1878, but Native Americans discovered it before the Europeans’ arrival. Fun fact #1: 7000 years ago a massive earthquake dislodged a 170 ton (340,000 lbs.) stalactite. It still lies there today, horizontal. Fun fact #2: It is the home of the largest musical instrument in the world: the stalacpipe organ. In 1954, Mr. Leland Sprinkle, an engineer, mathematician, musician and employee of the Pentagon, visited the cave. He saw how the guides would tap the stalactites to produce different tones. That inspired him to create (with the permission of cave management) an organ made of 37 specific hand-selected, tested and tuned stalactites. Today you can tour the cave 365 days a year and hear the organ playing. It’s automated and only played live for special occasions.
JOBS:
Alexandria - International Operations Specialist
CHRIS: Well, that’s all for now! The links to where we got our trivia will be in the show notes. For more info and full descriptions for all job openings, please go to www.pintoemployment.com where you can safely and securely apply to any job for which you meet the requirements.
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