While on a temporary Monsanto assignment in Montreal, Canada, Michael received an urgent phone call one day receiving word that the child-care husband had accepted a new job and the couple had to move, immediately.  That weekend Gigliotti packed up his family, preparing to move to his parents' home in Hoboken.  He wrote a letter of resignation to Fred Abbiati, the Monsanto Vice-President and General Manager, who refused the resignation and, instead, ordered Michael to report to the New York City office.  Gigliotti's new assignments involved recovering the business that Monsanto had lost due to war allocations; his territory was New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and the District of Columbia.

 

On his birthday in January 1951, while in Philadelphia, Michael asked the international telephone operator to locate Miriam Coombs in Rio de Janeiro (with Holiday On Ice); when the operator called back with the connection, Michael asked Miriam to come home to marry him.  She quickly said "Yes!" and hung up.  Luckily, the man at the Monsanto New York office working next to Michael was Edward McCormack, a retired Navy Captain, and son of the McCormack who started and controlled the Moor-McCormack Shipping Line, practically a monopoly on freight in and out of Brazil.  Ed McCormack said, "Mike, my roommate at Annapolis, Julio Frota, is a Commander in the Brazilian navy; he will take care of everything for Miriam."  And he did.

 

Bob Miller, by now the new General Manager and VP of Monsanto's Plastics Division, called Gigliotti up to Springfield in March 1951 to offer him a new position.  Miller told him that the Board had approved the construction of a new mid-western factory, greenfield, for the plastics division, and they had preliminarily selected a site in the Cincinnati area.  Miller said that after Michael got remarried and was ready to take on a new assignment, preferably in May 1951, the Division would give Gigliotti an appointment as Project Construction Manager and, temporarily, the Location Manager at the selected site.