Word: schriber
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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...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...
...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...
...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...