Pierson

"off other machines like bullets.” Harrison and his brother Bob had made notes of the machines and freezers in use when they visited the plant in Maine. The problem was that money was short, so the McCains searched for machines that they could get second-hand. They were able, for example, to buy freez- ing equipment from a Quebec firm. They also acquired second-hand boilers from a plant in Ontario and machines to cut potatoes from California. They bought new machines only when they had no choice. Pierson went over the machines as they arrived and adapted them, when necessary, to operate a frozen french fries line.21 Since many of the machines had to be modified, they often had to be"

"Foods because no one else knew how to build and operate a frozen food processing plant. He went to work improvising, sketching plans on the back of cigarette packages, thinking how the production process would work, and designing new machinery. Wallace explained that Pierson “had it all in his head,” never one to outline elaborate plans, preferring to solve problems on the spot.18 Harrison and Wallace were dependent on Pierson’s work. Once Pierson had put together plans for the plant, Wallace took his"

"production line in the plant. However, Pierson had a genius for coming up with innovative solu- tions and inventing machinery. He single-handedly developed a steam"