p73【How to Stop Worrying and Star Living】

Charles Kettering was in the same fix when he started out to invent a self-starter for automobiles.
「チャールズ・ケタリングは同じ苦境に陥っていた、自動車の自動スターターの開発を始めたとき」

Mr. Kettering was, until his retirement, vice-president of General Motors Research Corporation.
「ケタリングは、退職まで、ジェネラルモーターズの開発会社の副会長だった」

But in those days, he was so poor that he had to use the hayloft of a barn as a laboratory. 
「しかし当時は、あまりにも貧しく納屋の干し草置き場を実験室として使わざるを得なかった」

To buy groceries, he had to use fifteen hundred dollars that his wife had made by giving piano lessons; later had to borrow five hundred dollars on his life insurance.
「食料品を買うために、妻がピアノレッスンを行って捻出した１５００ドルを使わなければならず、のちに５００ドルを生命保険会社から借りなければならなかった」

I asked his wife if she wasn't worried at a time like that.
「私は彼の妻に、そのようなとき心配ではないか尋ねた」

'Yes, she replied, 'I was so worried I couldn't sleep; but Mr. Kettering wasn't. He was too absorbed in his work to worry.'
「ええ、彼女は答えた、とても心配して眠ることができない、でもケタリングは違う、彼は熱中しすぎて心配できないのよ」