Hanging the Moon: The Rollins Rise to RichesUniversity of Delaware Press, 2001 - 267 ページ "Employing interviews with those who knew and worked with him, Drury Pifer depicts the world of the Rollins family where doing business has the resonance of a religious vocation. Deep commitment and years of ceaseless labor convert a dream into commercial conquest. Ebullient John and his brother Wayne discover their talent for turning derelict companies into money machines, learning as they go. Starting with absolutely no capital, John borrows just enough to buy his first Ford car franchise in the forties. Working from dark to dark, he adds others. |
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The Source of Dreams | 45 |
Ideas and Onions | 53 |
Bubbling Optimism | 61 |
The Precipice Is a Path | 72 |
High Explosives | 79 |
Child Development | 134 |
Airheads and Airwaves | 144 |
Making History | 153 |
Old Money and a New Age | 159 |
Developments in Delaware | 165 |
Romancing Jamaica | 175 |
Conversation in Jamaica | 188 |
Nixon | 198 |
Going for Broke | 87 |
Radio Time | 94 |
Like Stepford Wives | 100 |
Everything but the Kitchen Sink | 104 |
Politics and Birds of Passage | 111 |
Mr Henry Tippie | 116 |
High Interest and Tremendous Luck | 123 |
An End to Politics | 129 |
Refining Fires | 206 |
The Hazards of Waste | 215 |
The Rule of Chance | 228 |
End of the Yellow Brick Road | 244 |
Giving Back | 253 |
Old Man of the Sea | 258 |
Index | 265 |
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