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...finished painting all of the Sunflower plant's 3.500 buildings (price $765,000). He is a past master at taking risks and coming out on top. Born in Russia 56 years ago, he came to Denver when he was 19, hired himself out to a painting contractor. Unable to understand English, he got by with painting whatever he thought needed...
...most adventurous U.S. painting contractor bagged a new job last week. Vat-shaped (200 lb., 5 ft. 3 in.) Nathan Schriber flew from Denver to Kansas City to boss a $310,000 job. The job: to seal every crack in a big new Sunflower Ordnance Plant building, to brush the walls with a fire-and water-resisting paint. The job was important; the building will house the manufacture of a highly explosive and highly secret new gunpowder, and the structure must be tight against fires and floodings (from the sprinkler system...
First big job Nate got as a contractor looked juicy $100,000 to paint the corridors of Washington's U.S. Agriculture Building. The catch: there were eleven miles of corridor; it took him three years to paint them. Painter Schriber made up for the loss in later Government work. One item: painting the White House. The thought of this job scares him a little; some 40 coats of white lead over the years must be quite a strain on the walls, he thinks...
...Nate Schriber's risks usually pay off. In 1943 Schriber Decorating Co. grossed $1,803,311. This year's gross is running about the same. Nate is the biggest painting contractor in both Washington, D.C. and the Denver area. But he lives simply, keeps business dealings direct: it took him 20 minutes to settle all his last year's Government renegotiation problems. "He gets his labor in the vicinity of the job, always hires union men, pays the union scale without a yammer. Real secret of Nate's success: no job is too big, none too small...
...clerk, met her husband Luis, a chief petty officer, at the Trocadero dance hall in Sydney a year and a half ago. "He just asked me to dance and I kept dancing with him all night," she explained. Her destination: Humboldt, Neb. where her father-in-law is a contractor. She was much relieved about what her three sisters-in-law would be like after she met a "lovely" Nebraska girl who was working at the Western Union desk of San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel...