1.   Albert, who at the time owned an Irwindale, Calif. pipe company, thought that the money was set aside for payroll taxes, Katzman said.

2.   He started as a laborer, first at a pipe company and later at a battery maker.

3.   It uses lumber from a Brooklyn pipe company that receives its pipe material in wood frames that it used to discard.

4.   Landis was almost drafted in World War II but remained a civilian because he worked for a Kansas City pipe company that was important to the war effort.

5.   One son, Tereso Ortiz, who works in a pipe manufacturing company, has become a U.S. citizen.