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...genial Nate the job was neither unusual nor big. Last year he and his men 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...
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...
Toughest Schriber job was painting the buildings at the Climax (Colo.) molybdenum mines in the winter of 1939-40. Many of Nate's painting crew could not stand the 12,000-ft. altitude and 35-below-zero temperature. Once, on treacherous Loveland Pass, Nate's car was blown off the road, and only a luckily placed tree saved him from a plunge into a chasm...
...high-walled adobe jail of La Paz last week languished Mauricio Hochschild, probably the biggest mining mag nate in South America. Arrested as instigator of a plot against Provisional President Gualberto Villarroel (TIME, May 8), he was lucky to be alive. The Villarroel Government had thought of shooting him, then thought again when it pondered his connections, his influence, his hold on Bolivia. Instead of killing him, his captors handled him with the special care due such a special person...
...boss of these operations, handsome, silvery-haired, 46-year-old Nate Twining runs his show from a regular Mussolini of a desk-a huge arc of walnut originally built to the specifications of an Italian general. Under its glass top are maps; above the maps Twining allows nothing but a pen and inkwell to linger...