Great Gulf saw skilled labour tightening before it became a national emergency. Its answer was to pull part of the building site indoors - and turn construction into a repeatable manufacturing system.
Alirio Torrealba spent 25 years selling Fords and Kias in Venezuela. Then he moved to Miami and started building the kind of Coral Gables that George Merrick sketched a century ago - boutique, Mediterranean, and now worth half a billion dollars.