How Alabama’s Only Billionaire "Yella Fella" Jimmy Rane Saved His Hometown
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Jimmy Rane transformed his family’s backyard lumber treating plant into $1.8 billion Great Southern Wood Preserving, the country’s biggest producer of pressure-treated lumber. But he never forgot about Abbeville, the town of 2,000 that raised him, where he lives to this day—among the 1950s-style buildings he helped restore.
