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...agent for Greyhound, Rubloff bought the famous old Ashland Block, a 16-story terra cotta skyscraper that sunburned the tonsils of visitors to the World Columbian Exposition in 1893. He also bought seven adjoining properties, making 70,000 square feet in all. Total cost: $1,700,000. Best guess on Rubloff's commission...
Rubloff has worked on the deal for 30 months, scurrying around for options, renewing them when they expired, getting 2,200 of the Ashland Block's certificate holders to approve a sale. "All big deals are one long series of headaches," he said last week. "I used stooges and dummies and anything I could think of. ... I scarcely even tell myself what I'm doing until I'm through." Rubloff, 39, quit grade school to shine shoes and peddle newspapers for a living, got into real estate in 1919 as an office boy. His only departure from...
KENTUCKY: Herbert L. Ley, Jr., Ashland...
KENTUCKY: Herbert L. Ley, Jr. Ashland...
...haul water for their stock. In New York, garden crops were badly damaged, lack of hay and pasturage threatened a shortage of dairy products. Farmers from Maryland, Delaware, Virginia and West Virginia met in Richmond, sent Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard a plea for "immediate help." In the Ashland, Va. Herald-Progress Publisher Paul Watkins advertised: "WANTED: One good rain for immediate delivery. . . . No thunder showers, ten-minute gully-washers, easy sprinklers or dust-layers need apply...