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Manhattan Contractor Samuel R. Rosoff takes business wherever he can find it. Last week, "Subway Sam" returned from a beaming visit with ruthless Dominican Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. Sam, who had his eye on a dam job in the Dominican state of Santiago, babbled chummily about the Benefactor. "He is sometimes called a dictator, but he's not," gushed Sam. "He's the most democratic man. Why, he had me to dinner with him at his home...
...Quite There. In Springfield, Ohio, resourceful Contractor Julius N. Marcinko had trouble with a key that wouldn't fit, finally got in through the basement window and laid a tile floor in the kitchen of the wrong house. In Nashville, Tenn., a woman had a neat, small house constructed, then discovered that the lot she owned was down the street...
...Dime. If any of this evidence ruffled Democrat May, he did not show it -at least not at first. His defense was ingeniously simple. He was just trying to help the war effort along by helping the Garssons-as he had helped many another war contractor. The checks and cash, he said, were just "campaign contributions," proceeds of private business transactions, funds to pay off notes he had signed to help the Garssons get a little ready cash. He had never made a dime out of the Cumberland Lumber Co. He had posed as Cumberland's owner, he said...
...three-room suite in Mexico City's gaudy Hotel Reforma, Rosoff continued digging into 1) the earth and 2) politics. Last July he completed a $10 million aqueduct in Puebla, Mexico for the Mexican Government. Now he is building a $45 million steel mill for Paul Shields, another contractor, who will own and operate the mill. He bought controlling interest in a lumber company in Chihuahua. Last summer he teamed up with Mexican bankers, raised $3½ million and bought control of the 500-mile-long Mexico North-Western Railway, which runs from Juarez to Chihuahua...
Last summer, just as his plan was well under way, Bob Strickland died. But the Trust Co. carried on his program. By last week, in 100 of Georgia's 159 counties, 57 farm contractors (80% of them veterans) were helping farmers grade land, pull stumps, build terraces and ditches, spread fertilizer. Farmers soon found that the contractors could save them time and money. Example: one contractor charged only $150 to clear 20 acres of cut-over woodland in a day, a job that would have taken the farmer weeks...